About > Pratap Vardhan
A bit about Pratap ~
I’m an AI engineer. I build interfaces, to help people tell stories using technology and data.
Currently working at Khan Academy and creator of Stats of India
You can read more about my work here.
To get in touch with me see contact.
Work
I spend most of my time with data, code & stories. Some of my work is here and twitter. If you’d like to discuss about my work or have similar ideas to exchange, send an email. I’d love to collaborate.
Talks
I try to regularly speak at few events on data. Here’s a list of my previous talks.
Publications
I used to publish in academic journals. This was mostly in collaboration with Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). You could read them Google Scholar.
Brief History
till 2007
I was born, schooled in Hyderabad. I was average in academics, particularly enjoyed math, physics and struggled with languages.
2007 - 2011
I joined NIT, Bhopal to study electronics engineering. I probably did very little of that. I mostly stayed back, learned about electrical circuits, or ended up playing cricket/basketball for most of my time here. By the time, I left college, I could at best write code in Matlab. Last 2 years of college, I found myself mostly working the professors at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore – solving problems related to Signal processing, Image processing and Math. And, met my wife in the college.
2011 - 2014
While I continued working with ISI and published some of my work. I joined Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore, to solve problems related to Computer Vision. Later, I moved to Thomson Reuters, Mumbai, to help companies create value out of intellectual property. I particularly didn’t enjoy the time I spent in Mumbai trains. I managed to pick up Python, R, JavaScript etc to work with data.
2014 - 2016
After stumbling on some of early Gramener’s work on Mahabharata. I sent my re-creation to to S Anand. We talked and I joined his team, where I built data solutions for companies including Airbus, Novartis, News18 and Govt of India.
2016 - 2017
I helped build data engineering team at a start-up in coupon space. Then moved to consulting compnay to head the Analytics Asia practice.
2017 - 2021
I joined back Gramener, to build data products to tell stories. I moved to Princeton during this time.
2021 - Present
Back to India. I’m working with Khan Academy, to make better decisions with data to improve learner outcomes. And, building Stats of India