Summary
Amala Deshmukh is a research scientist at NVIDIA with nine years of experience applying deep learning to vision and language tasks, currently focused on training vision-language models. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (MS Computer Science) and with prior roles across autonomous vehicle mapping, perception at Uber ATG, and academic research, she bridges rigorous research and production engineering. Her background spans building scalable data pipelines and retrieval systems for large corpora, gesture-driven robotic simulation, and practical product tooling, reflecting a rare mix of ML research and hands-on systems implementation. Based in Mountain View, she is known for turning research prototypes into deployable components and for teaching graduate courses on large-scale ML, signaling strong mentorship and reproducible-science practices.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Marathi