Meet Shah is a Research Engineer with 12 years of experience building and deploying production-scale ML systems for autonomous systems and multimodal perception, currently at Google DeepMind after roles at Waymo, Uber ATG, and Facebook AI Research. He specializes in speeding and compressing models and has a strong track record integrating pre-trained vision-and-language checkpoints and improving data pipelines, including notable contributions to the popular mmf framework (adding BAN, GQA support, and reproducible checkpoint metadata). Trained at IIT Bombay (B.Tech + M.Tech EECS), he blends deep research instincts with practical engineering to move models from experiments into latency- and resource-constrained production. Based in Mountain View, he favors pragmatic, reproducible solutions that scale under tight timelines and often focuses on the overlooked engineering work—data prep, tooling, and metadata—that makes research deployable.
A modular framework for vision & language multimodal research from Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Meet made several contributions to the `mmf` repository, focusing on the integration and use of pre-trained models, particularly in the context of Vision and Language tasks. Their work included updating feature extraction scripts, modifying download paths for datasets, uploading and updating pre-trained model paths, and adding support for the GQA dataset, indicating a focus on data preparation and model utilization. The user also implemented a new model (BAN) and added features for reproducibility, such as adding git metadata and the current experiment config to checkpoints.
Contributions:100 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
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