Currently working on fig to build a new class of foundation models and AI systems that can take actions over long horizons in the software world.
Previously
- Studied computer science, specifically machine learning at Georgia Tech and BITS Goa.
- Made early contributions to got-it-ai, the world's first fully autonomous conversational AI platform.
- Briefly worked in defense tech on multimodal systems to safeguard personnel.
- Worked on deep learning research at IIT Madras (to automate the annotation of handwritten text) and Berkeley Lab (to characterize the relationship between the Cortical Surface Electrical Potentials and intracortical signals of the brain in order to improve brain machine interfaces)
Selected Publications
- An Open-Source Software Toolkit & Benchmark Suite for the Evaluation and Adaptation of Multimodal Action Models
- Benchmarking Vision, Language, & Action Models in Procedurally Generated, Open Ended Action Environments
- KULCQ: An Unsupervised Keyword-based Utterance Level Clustering Quality Metric
- Jill watson: A virtual teaching assistant powered by chatgpt
- An end-to-end, interactive deep learning based annotation system for cursive and print English handwritten text
About
Currently live in San Francisco, grew up in Bangalore
Outside of work - I enjoy playing and watching sports (football (soccer) and tennis). Love spending time outdoors, and trying new experiences. Amateur surfer and scuba diver (trying to get better at both!)
Some non-work related goals for the near term -
- Become a 4-4.5 rated tennis player and play my first tournament in 2026.
- Run a full marathon in 2026. (Ran a sub 2 hour half marathon last year)
Favorite Reads and Podcasts
- coming soon