# Elvis Saravia

> Elvis Saravia is the co-founder and lead AI researcher at DAIR.AI, a mission-driven organization democratizing AI research and education worldwide. Based in Belize, he is the author of the Prompt Engineering Guide - one of the most widely read AI resources on the internet with 73,000+ GitHub stars and over 3 million learners - and publishes the AI Agents Weekly newsletter. A PhD graduate from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, he has contributed to landmark AI projects including the Galactica large language model at Meta AI, and is known for bridging rigorous research with accessible, production-minded education for the next generation of AI builders.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Lead AI Researcher at DAIR.AI
- **Organizations:** DAIR.AI, National Tsing Hua University (alumni), Meta AI (former), Elastic (former)
- **From:** Belize
- **Nationality:** Belizean
- **Education:** PhD in Information Systems and Applications, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, B.S. in Information Technology, University of Belize
- **Known for:** Co-creator of Galactica LLM (Meta AI, 2022) - 1,184+ academic citations, Author of the Prompt Engineering Guide - 73,600+ GitHub stars, 3 million+ learners, ML-YouTube-Courses repository - 17,200+ GitHub stars

## Career timeline

- **2004-2008** — B.S. in Information Technology, University of Belize
- **2008-2012** — Software developer (4 years of industry experience)
- **2015-2019** — PhD candidate at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, focusing on NLP and empathetic AI
- **2018** — Published CARER: Contextualized Affect Representations for Emotion Recognition (649 citations)
- **2019** — Speaker at PyCon US 2019 on Applied Deep Learning for NLP Using PyTorch
- **2019** — Founded DAIR.AI and launched the NLP Newsletter
- **2020-2022** — Education Architect at Elastic, developing technical curriculum for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash
- **2022** — Technical Product Marketing Manager at Meta AI, supporting FAIR, PyTorch, and Papers with Code teams
- **2022** — Co-creator of Galactica large language model (1,184 citations), published Prompt Engineering Guide
- **2023** — Prompt Engineering Guide reaches viral status on GitHub (73,000+ stars); launched promptingguide.ai
- **2024** — Prompt Engineering Guide surpasses 3 million learners; launched AI Agents Weekly newsletter
- **2025-2026** — Expanding DAIR.AI Academy with courses on Building AI Agents, RAG systems, and Advanced Prompt Engineering

## Achievements

- Co-creator of Galactica LLM (Meta AI, 2022) - 1,184+ academic citations
- Author of the Prompt Engineering Guide - 73,600+ GitHub stars, 3 million+ learners
- ML-YouTube-Courses repository - 17,200+ GitHub stars
- ml-visuals repository - 17,100+ GitHub stars for ML academic figure templates
- Google Scholar h-index of 10 with 2,268+ total citations
- Speaker at PyCon US 2019, PyTorch Developer Conference, EMNLP, RubyConf, PyConTW
- Publisher of one of the most widely-read AI agent newsletters globally
- Built DAIR.AI from a newsletter into a full AI education platform with courses on Maven and Thinkific
- 322+ commits to the Prompt Engineering Guide repository as primary contributor
- Provides AI consulting to leading AI companies on go-to-market strategy and product development

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Continues publishing AI Agents Weekly newsletter and expanding DAIR.AI Academy course offerings
- **2026-03** — Featured in coverage of the rapid advance of AI agents and their impact on knowledge work
- **2025** — Launched 'Building Effective AI Agents' and 'LLMs for Everyone' courses on DAIR.AI Academy
- **2024-01** — Prompt Engineering Guide crossed 3 million learners milestone
- **2023** — Launched promptingguide.ai as a dedicated web resource for the Prompt Engineering Guide

## Links

- Website: http://elvissaravia.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsar/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/omarsar0
- GitHub: https://github.com/omarsar
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyna_OxOWL7IEuOwb7WhmxQ

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Last updated: 2026-04-21