Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas (born 1994) is an Indian computer scientist, researcher, programmer, as well as CEO and co-founder of Perplexity AI.
Aravind Srinivas | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1994[1] Chennai, India[1] |
| Alma mater | IIT Madras (BA, MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | Perplexity.ai |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
Early lifeEdit
Srinivas grew up in Chennai, India[1] and studied Electrical Engineering at the IIT Madras.[2] Srinivas first worked as a research intern at OpenAI and later completed further internships at Google's DeepMind and Google itself.[1][3]
CareerEdit
His academic journey continued when he moved to the United States to do his Ph.D. in AI and deep learning at the University of California, Berkeley.[4] His research includes work on reinforcement learning, deep learning and Self-supervised learning|contrastive learning.[5]
In 2022 Srinivas founded Perplexity.ai with his cofounders Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski.[1][6]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Goode, Lauren. "Perplexity's Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They're Competing to Reinvent Search". Wired.
- ↑ "The Machine Learning Mogul from IIT Madras - Joy of Giving". joyofgiving.alumni.iitm.ac.in.
- ↑ Fridman, Lex (20 June 2024). "Transcript for Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434". Lex Fridman.
- ↑ Albrecht, Josh; Rohde, Ali (11 July 2023). "Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: Thursday Nights in AI". Thursday Nights in AI.
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Aravind-Srinivas-2140720918
- ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (4 April 2023). "AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app". TechCrunch.