Apoorve S is a founder and CEO with 10 years of experience building AI-driven products from research prototypes to customer-ready software. As co-founder and CEO of Slidely AI (YC S22), he leads development of an AI PowerPoint add-in that automates corporate-quality presentation design in seconds. His background blends academic research—collaborations with Brown, Stanford and Adobe on 3D surface learning and self-supervised human reconstruction—with hands-on product work across startups like BlinkPe and projects in assistive VQA and audio classification. He has a strong applied ML pedigree demonstrated by improvements to attention-based VQA models and practical deployments using Flask and Azure. Based in Bengaluru and educated at IIT Kharagpur, he pairs startup grit with research rigor and a knack for turning complex vision models into usable features. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of squeezing performance from limited data via student-teacher and angle-based optimization methods.
10 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Step By Step High School, Jaipur
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
An easy-to-use app to visualise attentions of various VQA models.
Contributions:103 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 1 year 11 months
vqamachine-learning
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