Sai Akula
Senior Research Scientist, MSL at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSai Akula is a results-driven Senior Research Scientist who applies technology to solve impact-driven problems across AI, entrepreneurship, finance, and social service. Based in Menlo Park, he is currently leading post-training for Llama multimodal models at Meta, shaping the next generation of vision-language AI. Over nine years, his trajectory spans Millennium as an AI Engineer, NYU as a Deep Learning Researcher and Teaching Assistant, and a multi-year stint at Goldman Sachs from Analyst to Vice President, giving him both research depth and production experience in finance. At NYU he advanced perception in multimodal LLMs, improved training and sampling efficiency of transformer-based diffusion models, and studied adversarial robustness in vision architectures. He brings a strong academic foundation from IIT Bombay and the Courant Institute, complemented by early leadership roles in campus technology initiatives and entrepreneurship programs. He combines hands-on engineering with strategic thinking to turn complex AI challenges into scalable, reliable systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada
Github Skills (2)
spring6
deep-learning5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Charithaakula/cambrian
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Cambrian-1 is a family of multimodal LLMs with a vision-centric design.
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
Charithaakula/pytorch-Deep-Learning
May 2022 - May 2022
Deep Learning (with PyTorch)
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
pytorchcaffe2deep-learningconvolutional-neural-networkmachine-learning
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