Summary
Pranav Shyam is a research scientist in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and researching large-scale generative models and reinforcement learning systems. After contributing to GPT-3, GLIDE, and infrastructure work at OpenAI, he now works on Project Gemini at Google DeepMind, blending applied model development with foundational research. His background includes model-based and off-policy RL for robotics at NNAISENSE and memory-augmented/few-shot learning research at IISc, giving him a strong cross-disciplinary toolkit spanning LLMs, diffusion models, and control. Notably, he has moved between academic and product-focused teams, repeatedly shipping dataset, infrastructure, and algorithmic improvements that bridge research prototypes and production systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, With Distinction, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, With Distinction at R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore
English, Kannada