I am Cofounder, President, and CEO of Perplexity (Aug 2022 – Present).
I have been an active Angel Investor since Jan 2023, investing in 20+ startups including Cursor, Eleven Labs, Suno, and SpaceX.
I was a Research Scientist at OpenAI (Sep 2021 – Aug 2022) focusing on language and diffusion generative models.
I was a Research Intern at OpenAI (May 2018 – Aug 2018) working on Policy Gradient Algorithms.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras: Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech), Electrical Engineering (2017).
I transitioned from research roles at leading AI labs to entrepreneurship to serve the world’s curiosity via Perplexity, and I invest across AI‑adjacent startups to diversify impact.