Prasanna Balaprakash
Co-Founder And CEO at PrimaLabs
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPrasanna Balaprakash is a founder and AI systems leader with 15+ years of experience scaling large-scale machine learning from research to production, currently building self-driving AI infrastructure as Co-Founder and CEO of PrimaLabs. He led breakthrough programs at Oak Ridge and Argonne, orchestrating teams of 50+ researchers and helping secure $200M+ in portfolios while delivering milestone projects like the first trillion-parameter training on Frontier and the ORBIT climate foundation model. A pragmatic organizer of large consortia and events (including a 1,400-person AI Jam) and a trusted advisor to industry and government, he has forged strategic partnerships with AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI and Google to mobilize advanced hardware for science. He co-created widely used open-source tools such as DeepHyper and ytopt that optimize AI/ML workflows on supercomputers, reflecting a rare blend of deep algorithmic research and systems engineering. Based in Chicago with a PhD in computational intelligence, he combines rigorous academic roots with enterprise-facing execution and a knack for turning national-scale compute into usable scientific AI.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke University MagdeburgBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation - UniversityDoctor 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 (80)
python10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
automl10
architecture10
linux10
generated-code10
scalability10
scalable10
raylib10
neural-architecture-search10
asynchronous10
pytorch10
mpi10
machine-learning10
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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