Summary
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu is a research scientist at NVIDIA and a tenure‑track Assistant Professor at UC San Diego with about 10 years of experience bridging academic and industrial ML research. He specializes in language-enabled reinforcement learning, knowledge‑augmented NLP, and procedural story generation for interactive text environments, bringing research from ideation to deployed baselines. His background includes roles at MosaicML, AI2, Facebook AI and Microsoft, where he developed state‑of‑the‑art RL agents for text games and contributed to platforms like ParlAI/Light. He also created a patent‑pending approach for generating noisy knowledge graphs to improve NLU in low‑resource settings. He holds a PhD and BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and prefers to be contacted through prithvirajva.com or Twitter DMs rather than LinkedIn.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Theory, BS Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Theory at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Telugu, Sanskrit