Hema Koppula
Staff Research Engineer at Coram AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHema Koppula is a Staff Research Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. She has driven research-to-product efforts across industry leaders—Apple, Skydio, Amazon—and academia, completing a Ph.D. at Cornell focused on RGB-D perception for assistive robots that earned a Google PhD Fellowship and multiple top-tier publications. Her work has powered autonomous drones, cashier-less retail vision systems, and consumer-scale research at Apple, showing a talent for turning academic advances into robust, production-ready systems. Known for combining deep probabilistic and generative modeling with practical systems engineering, she routinely bridges long-horizon research goals and short-cycle product constraints. Based on her trajectory, she brings both leadership in research initiatives and hands-on implementation experience in deploying real-world perception and robotic systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurGithub contributions (3)
hemakoppula/human_activity_labeling
Mar 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
hemakoppula/human_activity_anticipation
Jun 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:43 commits in 11 months
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