Arjun Karanam
Arjun Karanam is a co-founder of Trajectory. His work spans AI and human–computer interaction, including projects in augmented and virtual reality and public policy.
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Key facts
2015An App for Election History
He won the 2015 Congressional App Challenge in Georgia’s 7th District with Electoral College History.[1]
2018High-School Science Research
In 2018, Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed Karanam, then at South Forsyth High School, about radon-mitigation research combining oil compounds and machine learning. He described difficulties sealing his experimental chamber and improving algorithmic accuracy.[2]
2019Virtual Reality and History
Stanford’s CESTA profiled his work on the Horton Project in 2019. The team sought to turn the life of nineteenth-century poet George Moses Horton into a VR educational experience, developing storyboards and studying design choices.[3]
2020Alumni Advisory Board
On June 25, 2020, the Congressional App Challenge named him to its second Alumni Advisory Board, supporting the Challenge Ambassadors program and alumni engagement.[4]
Study and Teaching at Stanford
His public professional profile lists BS and MS degrees in computer science at Stanford, on the AI track, with a minor in history.[5]
Unshackled Ventures’ 2022 fellows profile described him as Stanford XR’s vice president of education, helping create and teach AR/VR courses and leading a student team developing an AR spacesuit interface for NASA SUITS.[6]
2024Evaluating LLM Deliberation
With Farnaz Jahanbakhsh and Sanmi Koyejo, he co-authored Towards Deliberating Agents, proposing an LLM deliberation-evaluation framework informed by political science. The abstract reports stronger justification than storytelling or active questioning.[7]
2024Policy Dreamer
Policy Dreamer, which he co-authored, combines policy generation, preference elicitation and simulated feedback. Its abstract describes novel proposals but limitations in covering the diversity of expert-written policies, particularly in controversial or emerging domains.[8]
2025Apple Research and Recognition
A September 2025 “25 for ’25” honoree profile identified him as an Apple research engineer working on multimodal generative AI and Vision Pro.[1]
2026Co-founding Trajectory
On May 27, he announced Trajectory with Ronak Malde and Michael Elabd, recalling that they met as Stanford freshmen. He described it as a research lab and product company building a continual-learning platform.[9]
The company describes a platform that turns usage traces, corrections and retries into improvements to models, prompts and harnesses. Its website says updates must pass customer evaluations and approval before deployment.[10]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Trajectory: Official website: https://www.trajectory.ai/ (opens in a new window)[10]
Stanford University: Official website: https://www.stanford.edu/ (opens in a new window)[3]
Arjun Karanam personal website: Official website: https://arjunkaranam.com/ (opens in a new window)[11]
Arjun Karanam X public account: Official account: https://x.com/QuantumArjun (opens in a new window)[12]
Arjun Karanam LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry public account: Official account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunkaranam/ (opens in a new window)[5]
Arjun Karanam GitHub public account: Official account: https://github.com/QuantumArjun (opens in a new window)[13]
Arjun Karanam academic profile: Official website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RKMYaj4AAAAJ&hl=en (opens in a new window)[14]
Sources
- 25 for ’25 Honoree: Arjun Karanam (opens in a new window)
- A Conversation With Georgia’s Top Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar (opens in a new window)
- RA Spotlight: Arjun, Regina, and Haley (opens in a new window)
- 2020 Alumni Advisory Board Announced! (opens in a new window)
- Arjun Karanam (opens in a new window)
- Meet The Unshackled Fellows Class of 2022 (opens in a new window)
- Towards Deliberating Agents: Evaluating the Ability of Large Language Models to Deliberate (opens in a new window)
- Policy Dreamer: Diverse Public Policy Generation Via Elicitation and Simulation of Human Preferences (opens in a new window)
- Announcing Trajectory (opens in a new window)
- Trajectory (opens in a new window)
- Arjun Karanam (opens in a new window)
- Arjun Karanam (@QuantumArjun) (opens in a new window)
- QuantumArjun (Arjun Karanam) (opens in a new window)
- Arjun Karanam (opens in a new window)