Pravin is an academic, a dreamer and an entrepreneur. He was Co-founder & CTO of Mojo Networks — a product venture which started in year 2003 from Pune and grew to become a leading provider of Cloud Managed Secure Wi-Fi for the global market. In 2018, the company was acquired by Arista.

Pravin started his research career at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and AT&T Labs where he was a lead member of Mobile IP, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth research teams. He has numerous research papers and 27 patents to his credit. Pravin is also the recipient of IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award of 2019.

For the past eleven years, Pravin has been pursuing his passion for nature conservation by reforesting a large tract of barren land near Pune. This project has now grown into a non-profit, social enterprise named 14 Trees Foundation.
Pravin has B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, India and MS/PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.