Prasanna Balaprakash
Co-Founder And CEO at Stealth AI Startup
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrasanna Balaprakash is a senior AI leader and R&D scientist directing ORNL's multi-project AI Initiative, shaping the strategic vision and translating cutting-edge AI/ML into scalable, secure, energy-efficient solutions for national scientific missions. With a background spanning computational intelligence and swarm intelligence, his work spans computer science, materials science, energy, climate, and health, leveraging some of the world's most powerful supercomputers. He has co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles and secured major funding, including a $2.5M DOE Early Career Award to build foundational AI/ML for science. He leads a community of 50 researchers and 100+ participants through ORNL's AI Academy and a broad suite of workforce development programs, from AI Summer Institute to Hackathons. He is a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and has cultivated wide collaborations across DOE labs, universities, and industry, mentoring dozens of students and contributing to a robust technically diverse environment. Based in Oak Ridge, he holds advanced degrees from Université libre de Bruxelles and Otto-von-Guericke University and has a long history of bridging research with practical, mission-driven impact.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Sciences Computational Intelligence Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization, Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Sciences Computational Intelligence Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization at Université libre de Bruxelles
Tamil, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (94)
python10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
automl10
supercomputers10
architecture10
linux10
generated-code10
scalability10
scalable10
raylib10
neural-architecture-search10
asynchronous10
pytorch10
mpi10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ytopt-team/ytopt
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
ytopt: machine-learning-based search methods for autotuning
Contributions:37 commits, 8 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years
pythonasynchronous-searchmachine-learningbayesian-optimizationautotuning
pbalapra/pbalapra.github.io
Mar 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:243 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
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