📍 about me

my name is pranav guruprasad

currently

• building foundation models & AI systems at fig that can take actions over long horizons in the software world
• interested in the intersection of multimodal understanding and action taking capabilities of AI systems
• living in san francisco, originally from bangalore

previously

• studied computer science & machine learning at georgia tech and bits pilani, goa
• made early contributions to got-it-ai, the first fully autonomous conversational AI platform
• worked in defense tech on multimodal systems to safeguard personnel
• research at berkeley lab on brain-machine interfaces — characterizing the relationship between cortical surface electrical potentials and intracortical signals
• research at iit madras on automating the annotation of handwritten text

outside of work

• love playing and watching sports - mostly football and tennis
• amateur tennis player - chasing a 4.0 rating & first tournament in 2026 🎾
• amateur surfer and scuba diver trying to get less amateur 🏄 🤿
• training for a full marathon in 2026 - ran a sub-2h half marathon last year 🏃