Bala Kumaravel
Founder at Jacard AI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBala Kumaravel is a founder and former Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research with nine years of experience building and aligning multimodal generative AI for real-world interactive applications. He led projects spanning Multimodal Copilots for productivity, generative systems for Bing Creative Ads, live AI agents for games like Minecraft, and spatial vision for AR/VR and robotics, with a specialty in fine-tuning and alignment of LLMs and diffusion models. Trained as a PhD researcher at UC Berkeley, his background blends mixed-reality interaction research with practical systems work—streaming 3D VR, telepresence, and perceptual pipelines—that routinely resulted in CHI/UIST publications. Now leading Jacard AI from Mountain View, he combines product-facing research instincts with hands-on system design and a history of shipping prototypes that bridge academic rigor and deployed features. An often-overlooked strength is his track record in orchestrating large, cross-disciplinary teams and translating lab innovations into scalable product primitives.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyIndian Institute of Technology Madras
Github Skills (84)
unity3d8
nakama8
depth-estimation8
backend8
depth-camera8
simulator7
ros7
api7
crossword7
baidu7
multiplayer7
realtime6
computer-vision6
stereo6
socket-io6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tkbala/bRecipe
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:250 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
tcdanielh/XR-B-CalHacks-AR-Workshop
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:16 commits in 11 days
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