Pratap Ranade
About
Pratap Ranade is from New York, New York, United States. Pratap is currently CEO and Co-Founder at Arena Physica, located in New York City Metropolitan Area. In Pratap's previous role as a VP of Engineering at Enigma Technologies, Inc., Pratap worked in New York City Metropolitan Area until Oct 2019. Prior to joining Enigma Technologies, Inc., Pratap was a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies and held the position of Forward Deployed Engineer at Greater New York City Area. Prior to that, Pratap was a CEO and Co-Founder at Kimono Labs (acquired by Palantir), based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jan 2014 to Feb 2016. Pratap started working as Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company in Jul 2008. From Sep 2004 to May 2008, Pratap was Ph.D. Researcher at Columbia University, based in New York, NY. Prior to that, Pratap was a Teaching Assistant at Columbia University, based in Greater New York City Area from Sep 2004 to May 2005. Pratap started working as Undergraduate Researcher at Stanford University in Stanford, CA in Oct 2001.
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Pratap Ranade's current jobs
Building Electromagnetic Superintelligence
Pratap Ranade's past jobs
- Led Engineering & Machine Learning (75+ engineers)
- Joined via acquisition of Kimono - Led work Palantir's work in financial services & payments - Led 10-12 person teams of data scientists & engineers - Developed new tech: 2 patents (pending) in applied machine learning - Product development & business development
- Co-founded Kimono Labs to convert unstructured web data into APIs - Y-Combinator, W14 - Raised $5 M (Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Max Levchin et al) - 130,000+ customers - Acquired by Palantir (2016)
- Doctoral research on magnetic nano-materials (MBE Deposition of Epitaxial Fe1-xVx Films for Low-Loss Ghz Devices) - Designed and built an ultra-high vacuum chamber for molecular beam epitaxy to study quantum mechanical properties of atomic scale magnetic systems. - Applications in novel computer memory and quantum computing
Taught graduate and undergraduate mathematics and physics courses to ~180 students. - Partial Differential Equations - Atomic Scale Engineering - Physics of the Human Body
Research assistant, to Prof. Hari Manoharan on Manipulation of the Atom (MOTA) project (http://mota.stanford.edu/): Collaborated with a team of 6 graduate students and a professor to conceptualize, design and develop a first-of-its-kind device (ultra-low temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope) to assemble and analyze atomic-scale structures. Awarded Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant for Undergraduate research