Prithviraj Ammanabrolu

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He leads the PEARLS Lab (Pragmatically Exploring Agents with Reinforced LanguageS) and collaborates with Nvidia as a Research Scientist.

• Research Focus: Bridging Machine Learning (particularly Reinforcement Learning) with Natural Language Processing to create trustworthy and responsible language-based AI agents.
• Key Themes: Contextual language understanding, neurosymbolic world modeling, human preference alignment via feedback, and AI in grounded environments.

Before joining UCSD in 2024, he worked on the Mosaic team at the Allen Institute for AI and as a Research Scientist at MosaicML (acquired by Databricks). His work intersects Cognitive Science and AI scalability.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Professor Mark Riedl at the Entertainment Intelligence Lab.
• Projects: RL4LMs, ScienceWorld, Q-BERT, WorldGeneration, and LLMFoundry for Databricks foundation models.