Tyler Whitehouse is the CEO of Gigantum, a research-focused software startup. He is a research mathematician by training: after a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University, he spent six years managing machine learning programs for US agencies such as DARPA, ARPA-E, and IARPA. At Gigantum, Tyler focuses on executing the company’s vision: to deploy an open technology that reduces technical differences between research producers and consumers, enables the rapid dissemination of research and customized code, and promotes global access to science.