Summary
Asim Kadav is a senior applied machine learning leader with 13+ years of experience building and shipping cloud and edge AI products, currently leading Content and Design AI at Adobe. He has a strong research pedigree (PhD, 7,500+ citations) and a prolific IP record with 50+ patent filings, translating cutting-edge methods into commercial products across companies like Tonal, Freenome, and Samsung Research America. Asim has delivered production camera-based computer vision features, GenAI pipelines for biomedical inference, and sub-1B parameter vision-language models for video understanding, bridging research and engineering. He co-founded and scaled eigen to ship a real-time video reasoning platform and later commercialized video analytics and efficient CV/ML methods at NEC Labs. Known for growing diverse teams and driving cross-functional product launches, he combines rigorous academic insight with hands-on systems design for large-scale training and on-device inference. Based in Mountain View, he’s equally comfortable in patent filings and sprint planning, with a rare track record of moving novel ML from publication to product.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Shivaji Science College
BE Computer Sciences, BE Computer Sciences at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology