Vig received his M.S., Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. During his Ph.D, he worked as a seed stage software engineer at Clockwork.io and helped teach courses in AI and Financial Technologies.

Previously, he was a seed stage software engineer at a machine learning startup, Celect, which was acquired by Nike in 2019. He also spent time working at Microsoft and NASA where he designed and built machine learning and software systems. He lives in San Francisco and enjoys playing tennis and skiing.