Aravind Srinivas

Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and chief executive of Perplexity. He studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and earned a doctorate in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research background includes machine learning and representation learning, followed by work in major AI research environments.

In 2022, Srinivas co-founded Perplexity with Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski. The company developed a conversational search product that generates answers using retrieved information and links to supporting sources. This approach brings language models into a workflow traditionally centered on a ranked list of web pages.

Srinivas’s contribution combines a technical research background with product and organizational leadership. Perplexity’s systems are built by a wider team, and their usefulness depends on retrieval quality, source fidelity, and how clearly an answer communicates its evidence. His profile connects modern AI applications with the continuing challenge of making online information easier to navigate and evaluate.