Draft:Aravind Srinivas

Aravind Srinivas (* 1994) is an Indian computer scientist, researcher, programmer as well as CEO and cofounder of Perplexity.ai.

Srinivas grew up in Chennai, India and studied Electrical Engineering at the IIT Madras. Srinivas first worked as a research intern at OpenAI and later completed further internships at Google's DeepMind and Google itself.

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, Berkely. His research includes work on reinforcement learning, deep learning and contrastive learning.

In 2022 Srinivas founded Perplexity.ai with his cofounders Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski.