Aravind Srinivas Age, Biography
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Age: 30 Years
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Marital Status: Unmarried
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Full Name | Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan |
Profession(s) | Entrepreneur, Scientist |
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Physical Stats | |
Height (approx.) | 5' 8" (173 cm) |
Eye Colour | Black |
Hair Colour | Black |
Personal Life | |
Date of Birth | 7 June 1994 (Tuesday) |
Age (as of 2024) | 30 Years |
Birthplace | Chennai |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Nationality | Indian |
Hometown | San Francisco, California |
College/University | • University of California (UC), Berkeley, California • Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai |
Educational Qualification(s) | • Ph.D in Computer Science (2021) (University of California) • B. Tech and M. Tech in Electrical Engineering (2017) (IIT Madras) |
Food Habit | Lacto-ovo Vegetarian |
Social Media | • Instagram |
Relationships & More | |
Marital Status | Unmarried |
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Book | Make Something Wonderful (2023) by Steve Jobs |
Some Lesser Known Facts About Aravind Srinivas
- As a student, Aravind Srinivas won the National Talent Search (NTS) Scheme scholarship by the Government of India and the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana, a scholarship programme by the Department of Science and Technology.
- He received the merit award at the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO), overseen by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) during his school years.
- According to him, he was depressed when he was unable to secure admission in computer science and instead was admitted to electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
- After the first semester, he lost his chance to change his department because his Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) was 0.01 lower than the required level.
- In 2015, he received the IUSSTF-Viterbi Program Fellowship, a program partnered with the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and The Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC).
- After these setbacks, he self-learned computer science topics, including Python and Machine Learning, a branch of Artificial Intelligence, through online classes and several programming websites on the internet.
- He completed an internship with Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist and recipient of the ACM A. M. Turing Award (commonly known as the Nobel Prize of Computing). He also wrote the letter of recommendation for Arvind Srinivas’s PhD admission.
- While pursuing his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, John Schulman, the inventor of ChatGPT, noticed his work, and gave him an internship with OpenAI in 2018.
- He worked as a Research Intern at DeepMind in 2019 and at Google from 2020 to 2021.
- In 2021, he worked as a research scientist at Open AI for a year.
- In August 2022, he co-founded Perplexity AI, Inc. (known for its conversational search engine) with Johnny Ho, Denis Yarats, and Andy Konwinski. As of December 2024, he is the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- Perplexity AI launched a shopping hub in November 2024, backed by Amazon and Nvidia. By December 2024, the hub had raised $500 million in funding, increasing its valuation to $9 billion.
- Since 2023, he has worked as the angel investor of various software start-ups.
- In September 2024, he announced that he signed up for the game show Squid Game (Season 3).
- He once gave his view on the H-1B visa issue in the United States, that the government was not focusing on the actual issue of illegal immigrants but on the issues of Indian immigrants coming to the US and taking American tech jobs.