I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley where I am advised by Joseph Gonzalez, Prabal Dutta, and Ion Stoica. I am broadly interested in ML-Systems, especially around LLM post-training, and agentic llm-systems. I am affiliated with the Sky Computing Lab (previously RISE), Lab11, and Berkeley AI Research (BAIR).
I created and lead the Gorilla, GoEx, RAFT, OpenFunctions, and Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) projects. The Gorilla and BFCL projects kick-started and helped catalyze tool use in LLMs, and with millions of user requests, widespread enterprise adoption - including ALL leading LLM labs, and a thriving open-source community. The Gorilla project continues to shape the evolving field of tool-calling for agentic LLMs.
My dissertation [talk] on the evolution of Agentic LLMs from function calling to truly autonomous agents.
News:
[Mar 2018] Presented our work to Bill Gates![Jul 2025] Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) published at ICML 2025
[Jan 2025] Released Sky-T1 Reasoning Model
[Dec 2024] Released Specifications: The missing link for LLM systems paper
[Dec 2024] Gorilla published at NeurIPS 2024
[Nov 2024] LLoCO published at EMNLP 2024
[Oct 2024] Launched Agent Arena by 🦍 Gorilla X LMSYS Chatbot Arena. Check it out
[Sep 2024] Released BFCL v3 with multi-turn. Release blog here
[Aug 2024] Released BFCL v2 with community contributed APIs. Release blog
[Apr 2024] Microsoft covers GoEx in their AI platform blog!
[Apr 2024] Release GoEx: A runtime for Agentic LLMs. Read more in our release blog
[Mar 2024] Meta and Microsoft cover our RAFT paper!
[Mar 2024] Released RAFT: Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning for LLMs.
[Feb 2024] Released Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL). Read more in our release blog
[Feb 2024] Released Gorilla OpenFunctions-v2. New SOTA in function calling.
[Dec 2023] Released Gorilla OpenFunctions. Check out our release blog
[Nov 2023] Presenting Gorilla at at UCL NLP, Meta, and DeepMind London!
[Oct 2023] Attending the Dagstuhl seminar on EdgeAI!
[May 2023] Released Gorilla LLM!
[Apr 2023] Talk on POET at Harvard Systems + Theory group
[Apr 2023] Skyplane published at NSDI 2023!
[Dec 2022] Talk at Microsoft Research India, and Google Research, Bangalore
[Sep 2022] IEEE Spectrum article on POET!
[Sep 2022] Led the Skyplane tutorial for Skycamp 2022
[Sep 2022] Skyplane accepted to NSDI 2023
[Sep 2022] I will be talking about ML on Edge at Princeton and CMU
[Aug 2022] Presented POET at Google Federated Learning Talks, and Google Language Seminar
[Aug 2022] Presented Galaxy and On-device ML at the Conix workshop at UW, Seattle
[Jul 2022] Presented POET as spotlight at ICML 2022! Camera ready on arXiv
[May 2022] Presented POET and Skyplane posters at RISE Retreat [Tahoe, CA]
[May 2022] POET accepted to ICML '22! Camera ready coming soon..
[May 2022] I will be interning with the Brain and Cloud teams at Google this Summer
[Apr 2022] Where the Sidewalk Ends: Privacy of Opportunistic Backhaul presented at EuroSec'22
[May 2021] I will be interning with the Core-ML team at Amazon Science this Summer
[Dec 2020] Embeddings for Indoor Navigation presented at NeurIPS'20 ORLR Workshop
[Jan 2020] Attending The Quantum Wave in Computing Boot Camp at Simons Institute
[Jan 2020] Presented poster at RISE Retreat [Monterey, CA]
[Jan 2020] Gave a talk at VMare Retreat [Palo Alto, CA]
[Jul 2019] GesturePod accepted to UIST 2019!
[Dec 2018] ZD Net covers our work at (NeurIPS) NIPS 2018
[Nov 2018] We will be presenting our work at (NeurIPS) NIPS 2018!
[Nov 2018] Demonstrated programmable gesture recognition on Xbox controllers with EdgeML
[Oct 2018] GesturePod implementation and simulation OSS
[Dec 2017] Our work covered by Financial Express and Microsoft AI blog.
Here are some key projects I have co-created:
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Gorilla
: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs
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POET
: Neural Network training on edge devices
Star
EdgeML
: Neural Network inference on edge devices
Star
Gorilla-CLI
: LLMs for your Command Line
Star
Letta AI (aka MemGPT)
: Memory for LLMs
Star
SkyRL (advisor)
: A Modular Full-stack RL Library for LLMs
Few Media Highlights of my work
- My comments in the ACM cover of our Revisiting Edge AI paper from Dagstuhl Seminar
- Microsoft and Meta blog on our RAFT paper
- The Daily Californian newspaper features Gorilla
- Gorilla paper walkthrough, podcast, and How Weviate trained their own Gorilla
- My advisor interviewed me: Generating Conversations with Prof. Joseph Gonzalez
- Gorilla on Youtube
- IEEE Spectrum article on POET
- Adafruit blog on Paul's Workshop at The Things Conference, UK
- Arduino and Hackster at ACM UIST 2019
- ZD Net at NeurIPS 2018
- Satya Nadella in an interview with Indian media [5:45 - 7:30]
- Financial Express
Talks
AICamp Silicon Valley, Palo Alto — Aug 2024
Arize Observe Conference, San Francisco — Jul 2024
Stanford MLSys Seminar — May 2024
ASPLOS EMC2 Workshop, San Diego — Apr 2024
Stanford University, Trustworthy Machine Learning — Oct 2024
Google Research, Bengaluru — Dec 2023
Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru — Dec 2023
DeepMind, London — Nov 2023
UCL NLP Seminar Series, London — Nov 2023
Meta, London — Nov 2023
Sky Camp, Berkeley — Oct 2023
Ray Summit, San Francisco — Sep 2023
Kong API Summit, San Francisco — Sep 2023
Simons Institute for Theory of Computing, Berkeley — Aug 2023
LlamaIndex Webinar — Aug 2023
Mosaic ML, San Francisco — Aug 2023
Intel, Santa Clara — Aug 2023
Microsoft Research, Redmond — Jun 2023
Berkeley LLM Hackathon — Jun 2023
Apple, Cupertino — May 2023
Sky Summer Retreat, Tahoe — May 2023
Harvard Systems + Theory Group, Boston — Apr 2023
Sky Winter Retreat, Monterey — Jan 2023
Google Research, Bengaluru — Dec 2022
Microsoft Research, Bengaluru — Dec 2022
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh — Sep 2022
Princeton University — Sep 2022
Google Federated Learning Talks, Mountain View — Aug 2022
University of Washington, Seattle — Jul 2022
Microsoft Research Techfest, Redmond — Mar 2019
VMware Research, Monterey — Jan 2019
RISE Retreat, Monterey — Jan 2019
Microsoft Research, Bengaluru — Jan 2019
Miscellaneous: I race go-karts all year-round, ski in winters, and sail in summers. If we are going sailing, please read this.