Bala Kumaravel
Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBala Kumaravel is a seasoned AI researcher and founder, blending academic rigor with product-focused innovation to advance multimodal generative AI. As a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, he leads projects on customizing, finetuning, and aligning LLMs and diffusion models to boost end-user productivity and collaboration in business-critical apps. His work spans multimodal copilots, Bing Creative Ads, live AI agents for games like Minecraft, and vision systems for AR/VR and robotics, with a focus on practical deployment and user experience. He is the founder of Stealth AI Startup, applying cutting-edge research to reshape how the internet is used. Bala holds a PhD candidacy at UC Berkeley in Computer Science and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, bringing an interdisciplinary foundation to AI, AR/VR, and immersive interfaces. Based in Mountain View, California, he bridges research excellence with entrepreneurial drive to turn complex AI challenges into scalable products.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (90)
unity3d8
nakama8
depth-estimation8
backend8
depth-camera8
simulator7
ros7
api7
crossword7
baidu7
multiplayer7
realtime6
computer-vision6
stereo6
socket-io6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tkbala/bRecipe
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:250 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
tcdanielh/XR-B-CalHacks-AR-Workshop
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:16 commits in 11 days
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