Pranay Manocha
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranay Manocha is a founder and CTO with a decade of experience building cutting-edge AI systems, most recently leading superintelligence VoiceAI efforts at Meta before co-founding Symbal, an enterprise data startup backed by Founders Fund. He combines deep research pedigree—a PhD from Princeton—with hands-on product and research roles at Adobe and Meta, bridging voice AI research to deployable systems. Based in the New York City area, he focuses on supplying frontier labs with high-quality data infrastructure and tooling. His background suggests a rare fluency across academic research, industrial R&D, and early-stage startup execution, with a knack for turning advanced speech and AI research into practical enterprise offerings.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Princeton University
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (60)
pytorch10
perceptual10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
audio10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
audio-loss-function10
loss10
jax9
neural-network8
signal-processing8
acoustics8
generalization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pranaymanocha/pranaymanocha.github.io
Sep 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:206 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
pranaymanocha/PerceptualAudio
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Perceptual Metrics of Audio - perceptually relevant loss function. DPAM and CDPAM
Contributions:1 review, 100 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
audio-loss-functiondifferentiable-audio-metricperceptualdpamjnd-framework
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