Founder Profile
Denis Yarats
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Denis Yarats?
Denis Yarats is a founder of Perplexity AI, Inc., which was founded in 2022 with Aravind Srinivas, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski.
- Company founded
- Perplexity AI, Inc.
- Founded
- 2022
- Co-founders
- Aravind Srinivas, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski
Background
PhD in Machine Learning from NYU and former AI research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Quora.
Founding Story
Denis Yarats co-founded Perplexity AI and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Drawing on his deep background in machine learning and reinforcement learning at FAIR, he engineered the underlying conversational search infrastructure that allows Perplexity to synthesize answers from live web data with high accuracy.
Yarats was born in 1987 and is a computer scientist.