Hey there stranger!


This is Vinay Prabhu, a tinkerer, scientist and an avid explorer of the AI realm.
 I am currently CEO'ing at HAL51.AI co-founded with close friend Sanghyun Han where we invent trippy frugal science hardware such as the LemurBox, the world's first frugal-science inspired XR device that turns your boring old smartphone into a 3D Alexa. It hosts a rigged 3D co-pilot avatar powered by LLMs. Guard-railing these educational avatars has given us a unique ringside-view on how ideas from AI safety manifest themselves in the real world, in the classroom and beyond.
From time to time, I scribble code and ship some artsy slop to the playa at Burning Man.

Background:

I began my research career in the tropical by-lanes of IIT-Madras working on Physical layer wireless communication algorithms harnessing tools from Information Theory & Estimation Theory. Specifically, I focused on sparse channel estimation problems resulting in a new time-of-arrival estimation framework for vehicular OFDM systems.

Later, I did my doctoral research as part of an experimental Dual PhD ECE/CS program at Carnegie Mellon University. My research spanned the academic monocultures of spectral graph theory, statistical physics, network sciences, communication theory and information theory.

Here is my PhD thesis and here are some samples of my explorations:

I began my post-doctoral professional career as a Data Scientist working on medical time-series analysis and probabilistic drug-drug interaction modeling from Medicare Part-D data. Later, I became the first employee and Chief Scientist at UnifyID AI Labs where I pioneered planetary scale human kinematics modeling using IMU motion sensor data and also ran an AI fellowship spanning five cohorts between 2016-2021. We exited in 2021 via acquisition by Prove :)