Sameer Dharur

Product Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States8 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in multimodal machine learning applications.
Developed interactive features for Siri enhancing user experience.
Strong background in AI interpretability and explainability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leading expert in AI and machine learning within the Consumer Technology sector.

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About

I am currently a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA. Previously, I spent 4.5 years at Apple working on problems in in multimodal machine learning, specifically at the intersection of computer vision, natural language and speech. Prior to joining Apple, I was an MS student in Computer Science (specializing in Machine Learning) at Georgia Tech, where I was advised by Prof. Dhruv Batra and worked closely with Prof. Devi Parikh. At Georgia Tech, my research revolved around building AI agents that can see (computer vision), communicate (natural language processing) and act (robotics) in novel settings in reasonable, logical and interpretable ways. Concretely : - Training models that achieve high-level AI goals such as navigation and question-answering. - Interpreting the decision-making processes of models to better understand their flaws. - Equipping models with the ability to reason about the world the way humans naturally do. I have also dabbled in inter-disciplinary reasearch, exploring the use of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to better inform public policy discussions around sustainable transportation. More details can be found in my research portfolio here : https://sameerdharur.github.io/

Experience

Nvidia

Senior Research Scientist for Generative AI

Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-site

Apple

2 roles

Senior Research Scientist | Special Projects

Jul 2024 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

Working on research problems at the intersection of computer vision and natural language, using multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs).

Research Engineer | Siri Perception

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs

Worked on building research prototypes at the intersection of vision, speech and language towards enabling novel interactive experiences with Siri. Helped deliver two new features to iOS 17 :
Back-To-Back Requests.
Just Siri.

Georgia institute of technology

5 roles

Graduate Research Assistant

Promoted

Jan 2021 – May 2021 · 4 mos

Working as a Graduate Research Assistant with Prof. Dhruv Batra.
Check out more about my work here : https://sameerdharur.github.io/

Head Teaching Assistant

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 · 4 mos

Working as the Head Teaching Assistant for the course CS 7643 - Deep Learning, taught by Prof. Dhruv Batra.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos

Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course CS 7643 - Deep Learning, taught in collaboration with Facebook AI.

Graduate Student Researcher

Dec 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr

Working under the supervision of Prof. Dhruv Batra on enhancing interpretability and explainability in deep neural networks across computer vision, natural language processing and robotics.

Graduate Student Researcher

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos

Working with Prof. Omar Asensio in the Machine Learning department at Georgia Tech on natural language processing using deep neural networks to develop strategies supporting sustainable transportation.

Salesforce

Software Engineer Intern - Conversational AI

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

Worked on reducing the semantic redundancy among recommended responses in Einstein Reply Recommendations. The feature, integrated into Salesforce’s Service Cloud as part of its 228 release, led to the generation of 2.3x more diverse responses.

Qualcomm

2 roles

Machine Learning Software Engineer

Mar 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Part of Qualcomm India's machine learning org that developed the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (SNPE) and adapted Google’s Android Neural Networks (ANN) API to Qualcomm’s chipsets. Implemented and tested a wide range of convolutional neural networks on chipsets, meeting key performance indicators such as timing, accuracy, power and memory consumption.

Modem Software Engineer

Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

Worked on building modem software on the Snapdragon 430 - Qualcomm's offering for the lower-middle price range of smartphones - collaborating with a wide range of teams responsible for various modules of the product.

Oracle

Applications Developer

Jul 2016 – Oct 2016 · 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Worked in the Hospitality Global Business Unit (HGBU) of Oracle on the development of a product that provides seamless exchange and interfacing between hotels and third party booking sites.

Bits pilani, hyderabad campus

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Worked as a Teaching Assistant on the course 'Cryptography and Network Security' - and was tasked with setting and evaluating assignments for students of the course.