IIT Madras
UC Berkeley
Andy KonwinskiCo-founder · PerplexityFounder↗Both at Perplexity
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Aravind Srinivas
PerplexityCo-founder and CEO
🇮🇳 IndianBorn 1994
Srinivas co-founded Perplexity, which helped popularize the AI “answer engine”: a search product that reads current web sources and responds directly with a synthesized, cited answer rather than only presenting a list of links.
Career & education
Current rolePerplexityAug 2022-presentCo-founder and CEO
PerplexityAug 2022-presentPreviously
OpenAI2021-2022Research Scientist
OpenAI2021-2022Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations15,795As of Oct 19, '26
citations+1,136Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
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