Prithviraj Pramanik

Prithviraj Pramanik

Prithviraj Pramanik is the CEO of AQAI and a Ph.D. candidate at the National Institute of Technology Durgapur, researching cost-effective urban air quality measurement techniques using multimodal data. As a Fulbright Climate Fellow, he has collaborated with Argonne National Laboratory and the Discovery Partners Institute in the USA, focusing on city-scale air quality monitoring with low-cost sensors. He has authored numerous publications at prestigious conferences such as SIGCHI, WWW, AGU, and PerCom, as well as in leading journals like Transactions of Sensor Network and Knowledge-Based Systems. He also holds a pending patent on Crisis Mapping.

 

As a recipient of the UNICEF Venture Fund, Prithviraj supports AQAI’s mission to democratize air quality data through innovative AI and data science solutions. AQAI’s platform provides high-resolution air pollution estimates and generates hyperlocal predictions using an open-source machine learning framework.

 

A serial entrepreneur, Prithviraj previously co-founded a startup recognized as one of the top ten disaster management startups in India by the Government of India. Under his leadership, AQAI was selected as one of 30 global teams for the MIT Fuse 2023 program and received multiple grants from the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund.

 

Prithviraj has been a prominent voice in global forums, recently serving as a panelist at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 78, where he discussed the role of youth in shaping a digital future. His work focuses on developing transparent, fair, and accountable AI systems to address critical global challenges, particularly in environmental health and resilience.

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