Sridhar Mahadevan
Director at University of Massachusetts Amherst
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSridhar Mahadevan is a seasoned AI researcher and technology leader shaping collaborations between academia and industry. He is Director of Adobe's Data Science Lab and a Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, based in San Jose, California. With four decades in AI/ML, his work spans both cutting-edge theory and large-scale production research for analytics and marketing platforms. His current research centers on a novel AGI framework grounded in category theory, going beyond deep learning and LLMs, and he details this in his AAAI 2025 tutorial “Thinking with Functors: Category Theory for A(G)I.” He has held leadership roles including Visiting Professor at Stanford and former Executive Director of SRI's AI Center, underscoring a track record of guiding ambitious AI programs. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University and continues to advance the field through teaching, research, and cross-institutional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at PhD, 1990, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Github Skills (13)
caffe26
deep-q-learning5
machine-learning4
artificial-intelligence4
deep-learning4
theano4
q-learning3
pytorch3
ai3
scalable3
modular3
ml2
deep-neural-networks2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sridharmahadevan/Geodesic-Covariance-Alignment-
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
sridharmahadevan/Geodesic-Covariance-Alignment
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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