Sep 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• Artificial General Intelligence. Working on GenAI. Enabling LLMs to see and understand images and videos. Made core contributions to:
• 1). Multi-modal pre-training of Amazon Nova Lite/Pro.
• 2). Dual-encoder (CLIP like) embedding models called titan multi-modal embeddings.

May 2023 – Sep 2023 · 4 mos · Prague, Czechia · On-site

Jul 2022 – Nov 2022 · 4 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

Apr 2022 – Jul 2022 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Feb 2020 – Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos · Palo Alto · On-site

Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 · 3 mos · Palo Alto

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, USA

• Worked under the supervision of Prof. R. Manmatha, Prof. Alexander J. Smola and Dr. Son Tran.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · United States

• Working under the supervision of Prof. Abhinav Gupta and Dr. Maneesh Singh on Active Vision for Learning to Predict Deformations from CAD Models of Specular surfaces.

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

• I worked at CMP, CTU in Prague under the supervision of Professor Jiri Matas and Michal Busta. As an outcome of my internship we won ICDAR RRC-MLT 2017 competition on "Cropped Word Script Identification". Beyond the internship, we developed an end-to-end method for multi-language scene text. Report on this project was submitted to CVPR 2018 and is currently under review.

Aug 2016 – Apr 2017 · 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• 1. I was teaching assistant for Statistical methods in Artificial Intelligence course (CSE471), Monsoon 2016. The course was instructed by Prof. Avinash Sharma.
• 2. I was teaching assistant for Computer Graphics course (CSE251), Spring 2017. The course was instructed by Prof. Avinash Sharma.
• Duties included conducting tutorials, mentoring students for course project, grading assignments and exams. For Graphics course, I had the responsibility of setting up and maintaining a standardization server, which was used by students for assignments.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Barcelona Area, Spain

• I worked with the Document Analysis Group of Computer Vision Center, Barcelona for a duration of 3 months. I was supervised by Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas, Dr. Lluis Gomez and Dr. Marçal Rossinyol during this duration. As an outcome of my internship, I published a ECCV workshop paper on "Dynamic Lexicon Generation for Natural Scene Images".

May 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• I worked as an Undergraduate Researcher at Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) lab under the supervision of Prof. C.V Jawahar in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Multimedia Applications.