Beau Cronin

About Beau Cronin

I spent more than five years on the product development team at WeaveGrid, with roles in engineering, operations, and product. In my time at the company, we grew from a baby startup landing our first deal to several million in ARR and thousands of vehicles on the platform.I was previously a partner at The Data Guild, a venture studio that co-creates new businesses in life sciences, healthcare, demand-side energy, and other sectors that bear on social and environmental impact. After receiving my PhD in computational neuroscience from MIT in 2008, I co-founded two companies based on probabilistic inference; both were backed by the crazy folks at Founders Fund. The second, Prior Knowledge, was acquired by Salesforce in late 2012.I live in Berkeley, CA with my wife and daughters.

Experience

1. Principal Product Manager, Research

   Handshake

   Mar 2026 — Present

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  PhD, Neuroscience

  2003 — 2008

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Probabilistic Models
• Data Mining
• Cloud Computing
• Strategy
• Analytics
• Scalability
• Bayesian Statistics
• Saas
• Machine Learning
• Software Product Management
• Python
• Virtual Reality
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Visualization
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo
• Entrepreneurship
• Early-Stage Startups
• Product Management
• Data Analysis
• Probability Theory
• Algorithms
• Predictive Analytics
• Neuroscience
• Model Selection
• Statistics
• Statistical Modeling
• Bayesian Inference
• Bayesian Methods