Branavan Selvasingham
I build reliable AI systems for the real world.
VP, Head of AI & Product Engineering at Zafin.
Based in Toronto.
Selected work
- SO-101 Robot Experiments
- Model-driven robot control using a gripper-mounted camera and tool calls.
- Many Lives
- A multi-agent simulation exploring coordination and persistent behavior in a shared world.
- Shape of μ
- A VisionOS graph visualizer for 3D forms and spatial interaction.
- AI Presence Kit
- An interface runtime that makes waiting, thinking, streaming, and interruption visible.
- Nimbus POS
- A bootstrapped restaurant platform, built and operated from 2015 to 2018. Exited through client and data acquisition.
- Production AI at IBM
- Systems used by more than 20 million people. Recognized with a 2022 Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.
Thoughts
- What Happened to the Four-Day Week?
- Why being able to accomplish more could give us more reason to keep working.
- Multi-Generational Memory
- How AI could bring other people’s experience into our everyday thinking.
- Gravity, Magnetism, and Love
- On informational alignment, attraction, and repulsion.
About
I work across product, engineering, and applied research. At Zafin, my focus is reliable agent orchestration and human review. Outside that work, I build experiments in robotics, simulation, and spatial computing.
Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo.
MBA, Schulich School of Business.