Stuff that Scales:
>extremely multimodal bioFMs.
>tooling to speed up policy research @ The Courtyards Institute.
>embedding superhuman situational awareness into LLMs w/ RL & JX.
Hi!
I’m Praneel Patel.
Currently working on a bioLM company.
I previously studied Math + Scandinavian Studies at The Ohio State University.
I also previously studied at Nova Southeastern’s BS/MD.
Contact me at prapatel26@gmail.com, I always love meeting passionate people.
Research Interests:
>LMs (BioLMs for biotech & LLMs)
>Information Theory
>causal inference
>medieval Icelandic literature
Stuff that doesn't Scale:
>cooking comfort food
>watching Korean horror movies :)
>solving missing persons cases
My Work:
>OngoingOps Team @ TraceLabs
>>Solved missing persons cases using OSINT in collaboration with local police, national agencies, and INTERPOL. Top 30/23k+ for a period of time.
'22 - Present
'23 - Present
'22 - '24
Summer '25
Summer '25
Spring '26
>Co-Founder, VP @ The Courtyards Institute
>> Our singular goal is to deliver the most impactful policies with the least amount of bureaucracy by developing policy that requires the least quantity of funding and leads to the least amount of red-tape.
>Co-Investigator @ Olive Theory Lab
>>Keeping callers on crisis hotlines on-hold for longer. Worked with the Us Natl. 988 Suicide Hotline. Foundation Model training.
>Offseason @ Founders Inc.
>>1 of 70 out of 2200+ chosen. Withdrew halfway to work at B-12.
>Engineering Intern, First Hire @ B-12 Labs (YCS25)
>>Automated chemistry labs for pharma.
>Research Intern @ Cloudflare AI Research
>>Simulating our global AI inference infrastructure to inform technical decision-making.
>>Variously also built some devtools and found abusive accounts.
blogs: (still in dev sorry! framer has a page limit so i gotta hack round it -> buggy)
(for now, please see: my position paper on why think-tank research is ineffective and how to solve)
please enjoy