Michele Catasta
Michele Catasta
President of Replit
Projects
Ideas brought to life. A look at the products, companies, and creative works built from the ground up.
Replit Agent
AI agent platform from Replit designed to automate end-to-end app creation and repair; Michele is listed as architect/Principal Investigator and public spokesperson for the product launch and subsequent v2 updates.
Replit Code Repair
Low-latency AI code repair system announced at Replit Developer Day; Michele served as Principal Investigator on the project.
replit-code-v1-3b (open source model)
Replit's code model released to the community (announced/released at Replit Developer Day); Michele is credited on Replit/public materials for the model.
Research contributions to PaLM-Coder / PaLM
Contributed to code-generation capabilities related to Google's PaLM family (work while at Google Labs / Google X).
In the Spotlight
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Recognitions
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EB-1A Green Card
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Principal Investigator — Replit Code Repair (public lead)
April 2024Publicly credited as PI on Replit's Code Repair announcement and roadmap work.
Source: Replit / Replit Developer Day
Architect / Public Lead — Replit Agent
2024–2025Led product and research efforts behind Replit Agent, cited in press and conference talks as a company milestone.
Source: Replit
Academic publications and contributions (highly-cited researcher)
2009–presentMultiple peer-reviewed publications in web data, crowdsourcing, and ML on graphs; contributions to community datasets and code research (Open Graph Benchmark, papers with Jure Leskovec and others).
Source: Academic community (Semantic Scholar / Google Scholar listings)
Work Experience
Key roles that defined the journey.
President & Head of AI
Leads Replit's AI strategy and productization (agents, code models, developer tools). Publicly credited for Replit Agent, Code Repair, and model releases; frequent spokesperson in interviews and conferences.
Distinguished Fellow
2025 - PresentAI Advisor
2023 - 2025AI Advisor + Scout Investor
2022 - 2023Head of Applied Research at Google Labs
2022AI applied to Source Code, Large Language Models
Head of Applied Research
2021 - 2022AI applied to Source Code, Large Language Models
AI Advisor
2021Instructor
2018 - 2021Google Cloud Faculty Expert
2020 - 2020Research Scientist and Instructor Research Scientist and Instructor
Visiting PhD
2014Software Engineer Intern
2011Research Assistant
2007 - 2009Co-founder of sindice.com, later evolved into siren.io
Student Researcher
2008Education
Academic foundation and learning journey.
Stanford University
2017 - 2019Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence
EPFL
2010 - 2015Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science
Thesis title: "MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems"
University of Galway
2007 - 2009Master of Science (MSc), Applied Computing and Information Technology
Grade: with Research HonoursGrade: with Research Honours Thesis title: "Scalability solutions for the Web of Data" Full tuition scholarship
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