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Vashisht Madhavan

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I'm currently a Research Engineer at Pika, leading data curation and post-training efforts.


I'm interested in AI systems, products, and research. Particularly, at the intersection of NLP and vision - so multimodal LLMs, OCR systems, etc.


vashisht.madhavan@gmail.com

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Past

  • Humanlike

    I was the co-founder/CTO of Humanlike, which built AI voice bots to automate phone calls for businesses. We went through the YCombinator S23 batch.

  • Snorkel AI

    I was a Staff ML Engineer at Snorkel AI, where I led development on the NLP platform for structured documents (i.e. PDFs, Images, Excel, etc.), now used by some of the largest Fortune 500s.

  • Uber

    Previously, I was an AI Researcher at Uber AI, working with Jeff Clune. I focused on RL research and applications for business units like Uber Freight.

  • Berkeley

    At Berkeley, I was a grad student at BAIR, working with Trevor Darrell on computer vision systems for autonomous driving. Here, I helped put together one of the largest datasets of annotated driving videos.