Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, the revolutionary AI answer engine that is reimagining how people search for information. Born on June 7, 1994, in Chennai, India, Aravind earned dual degrees (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras before pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, focusing on machine learning and AI. Before founding Perplexity in 2022, he held research positions at OpenAI, Google Brain, and DeepMind, working on cutting-edge AI including reinforcement learning, contrastive learning, and transformers. At age 31, he became India's youngest billionaire on the 2025 Hurun India Rich List. Aravind is recognized in TIME100's most influential people in AI.