Prasanna Balaprakash

Co-founder & CEO at PrimaLabs.
Ex-Director of AI at ORNL.

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The Pitch

I bridge the gap between Exascale research and commercial AI. With a background managing a $200M+ portfolio and training trillion-parameter models on the world's fastest supercomputers, I now build secure, energy-efficient AI systems that solve hard problems.

Engineering & Scale

Trillion-Parameter Scale

Directed the first trillion-parameter AI model training on the Frontier supercomputer (world's fastest). Proved capability to scale foundation models beyond industry standard limits.

Foundational Models (ORBIT)

Developed ORBIT, a 113-billion parameter Vision Transformer. Surpassed previous climate AI foundation models by 1,000x in size, earning a finalist spot for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize.

Strategic Capital & Partnerships

Secured $20M+ in direct funding and managed an $8M LDRD portfolio. Established R&D partnerships with NVIDIA, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.

Open Source Architect

Creator of DeepHyper (scalable AutoML) and ytopt. My work in automating machine learning workflows is used to optimize complex scientific systems efficiently.