Harpreet Sawhney
Sr. Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarpreet Sawhney is a senior principal applied scientist and technical leader with a Ph.D. in computer science, over three decades of experience across industry and research, and a deep focus on multimodal, physically aware AI for vision, robotics and mixed reality. He has led large DARPA/IARPA/NIH programs and productized vision capabilities at Microsoft (Hololens/D365 Guides) and now Amazon Robotics, translating research into deployed systems that fuse 2D, 3D, audio and interaction signals. An inventor on 90+ patents and author of 115+ publications, he combines systems-level engineering with foundational work in contextual perception, 3D navigation and action understanding. He is an IEEE and SRI Fellow and a multi‑award recipient who repeatedly bridges academic rigor with practical, enterprise-grade deployments. Notably, he has prototyped MR copilots and multimodal 3D avatars that exploit incomplete, noisy sensors—demonstrating uncommon expertise in lifting between text, 2D and 3D representations. Based in Redmond, he excels at driving cross-disciplinary teams to deliver physically grounded AI that links digital content to real-world manipulation and workflows.
10 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanPh.D. CS, Ph.D. CS at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (49)
physics-engine10
interaction10
computer-vision10
visual-question-answering10
simulator9
artificial-intelligence9
robotics9
datasets9
machine-learning9
torchvision9
clip9
zero-shot-classification9
flamingo8
deep-learning8
pytorch8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sagadre/sagadre.github.io
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:88 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
mlfoundations/dataset2metadata
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 10 months
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