Summary
Divya Kothandaraman is a Senior Researcher at Dolby Laboratories with a decade of experience developing generative AI and multimodal learning systems. She completed a PhD at University of Maryland focused on “Learning from Less Data,” producing multiple papers on computer vision and generative image/video synthesis. Her work spans context-driven multimodal video generation, diffusion-model editing, and research into memorization and selective learning, with inventions leading to patents from internships at Google and Adobe. Divya has a strong industry-academic track record—research internships at Google, Adobe, Intel, and others resulted in top-conference publications and practical gains like substantial mAP improvements in few-shot detection. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she combines deep theoretical grounding with product-focused research that accelerates personalized media generation. An understated strength is her consistent focus on data-efficient methods that scale synthesis quality while reducing training requirements.
10 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Hindi, Tamil