Adithya Rohith | Founder | Researcher

EDUCATION

PES University — B.Tech Computer Science (AI & ML), 2022-26

CURRENT

Co-Founder & CEO, Taan.ai (Jan 2026–Present) | Building controllable AI music generation for video.

Outperforming SOTA models on time-adherence benchmarks. Developed proprietary temporal-alignment architecture, Beta used by 21 agencies.

Incubated at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore; LocalhostHQ Founders Program.

Founder & CEO, Aalap AI (Dec 2024– Nov 2025) | Built AI music systems for advertising and branding.

Led product, customer discovery and technical execution to $1k MRR

Secured venture term sheet from CoCreate Ventures at age 20.

RESEARCH & IP

Patent Published: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MUSIC USING A DYNAMICALLY SELECTED ENSEMBLE OF AI MODELS (App. No. 202541117742) — Co-author; core experimentation code.
Patent Published: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND VALIDATING MUSIC COMPOSITION (App. No. 202541010312) — Co-author; core experimentation code.
Research Paper Under Review: Hybrid Diffusion-Transformer Architecture for Multitrack Mood-Based Carnatic Music Generation. — Co-author
Granted Patent: A MULTI-LAYER, ELASTIC SHOE LACE (Patent No. 511216).

PRODUCTS & LEADERSHIP

Robin Internships — Internship platform reaching ~850 users; Top 20/1000+ startups in Cisco x Nasscom ThingQbator.
President, PES University Student Council — Led 750+ student leaders, managed ₹1Cr+ budget, oversaw university clubs and one of the institution's largest festivals.

MUSIC & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Professional guitarist and metal vocalist in a prog metal band. Winners of 9 Battle of the Bands competitions; performed at BITS Goa, BITS Hyderabad, IIT Madras, RVCE amongst others.

Built and sold products on Amazon from age 11, operated a football-shoe resale business, ran a liquid nitrogen ice-cream venture generating ₹60,000 in 3 days, and built multiple consumer prototypes before age 18.

INTERESTS

AI Music Generation • Audio ML • Generative Systems • Human-AI Creativity • Computational Music Theory