Tejas Prabhune

I'm a big fan of machine learning, systems, economics, social science, debate, painting, and table tennis. Working on something new! I love meeting new people, so please reach out and we can grab coffee :)

  • sim francisco: modeling distributionally accurate city simulations. simfrancisco.org
  • Wispr: post-trained and deployed multilingual models. wisprflow.ai
  • Machine Learning @ Berkeley: ex-president (Sp26), ex-VP of Education (Fa25). ml.berkeley.edu
  • CS 189/289 (Intro to Machine Learning): lead TA twice. Made the homeworks for information theory, transformers, diffusion, and flow matching.
  • Research: speech-driven 3D avatars of the vocal tract, brain-computer interfaces for virtual embodiment, and audio-visual dialogue from avatar-based LLMs at the Berkeley Speech Group. Contrastive pretraining for diabetic retinopathy classification at SAIL. Published in ASRU (2023) and Nature Scientific Reports (2023). Publications, Google Scholar
  • NPDA Debate: NPTE Champion 2026. npdadebate.com, goldenturn.org