Jim Gao
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Jim Gao is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Phaidra. Before founding the company in 2019 with Veda Panneershelvam and Katie Hoffman, he spent over a decade designing and optimizing Google’s data center infrastructure and led initiatives to improve energy efficiency, operational performance, and control of mission-critical cooling systems. After AlphaGo’s victory, he partnered with Panneershelvam to apply reinforcement learning to Google’s data center cooling systems through DeepMind Energy. He is known for that work on AI-based optimization of physical infrastructure, which Phaidra says achieved up to 40% energy reduction in an already highly optimized facility.
Updated 22 October 2026
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