About
Anand Kannappan is the co-founder and CEO of Patronus AI, a company developing simulation research and infrastructure for training and evaluating frontier AI models and agents, and the source of AI evaluation projects including FinanceBench, Lynx, SimpleSafetyTests, and CopyrightCatcher. Before founding Patronus AI, he led applied machine learning and causal inference work at Meta Reality Labs, where he built the organization's first observational causal inference platform and served as a functional lead for a 70-person team. Patronus AI is backed by investors including Lightspeed, Notable Capital, Factorial, Stanford, and Datadog.
Cofounder at Patronus AI
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Experience
- Patronus AICo-Founder and CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- FacebookMLcurrent2019 — presentMenlo Park, California
- Kyber TechnologiesCo-Founder2015 — 2020
- Oculus VRData Scientist2018Menlo Park, California
- The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessResearch Assistant2017
- BlackRockQuantitative Analyst2017New York City Metropolitan Area
- UptakeProduct Manager2016Greater Chicago Area
- PeelSoftware Engineer Intern2015
Education
- University of ChicagoBachelor's degree, Economics
- Stanford University
- Dougherty Valley High School
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