Prasoon Varshney
Research Scientist at NVIDIA
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPrasoon Varshney is a research scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience at the intersection of NLP, computer vision, and conversational AI, currently developing trustworthy LLM-based dialogue systems at NVIDIA. He combines industrial product experience from Goldman Sachs—where he built domain-aware conversational agents and real-time analytics—with academic research in embodied dialogue and concept learning at Carnegie Mellon. Fluent in turning research prototypes into production-facing tooling (see his work on NeMo-Guardrails), he focuses on multilingual and conversational NLP, self-driving tech, and multimodal document understanding. Prasoon’s background spans hands-on systems work, large-scale R&D, and teaching, and he has a track record of mentoring teams and leading large student initiatives dating back to IIT (BHU). Notably, he blends cryptography and low-level implementation experience from early internships with modern ML research, giving him a rare depth across theory, systems, and applied production.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bal Bharati Public School, PitampuraVidyamandir ClassesMaster's degree Computational Data Science, Master's degree Computational Data Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (24)
robotics10
simulator10
windows10
desktop10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
reinforcement-learning9
color-picker9
python9
computer-vision9
deep-learning8
powertoys8
ai8
modular8
artificial-intelligence7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prasoonvarshney/home-robot
Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
Mobile manipulation research tools for roboticists
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
prasoonvarshney/habitat-lab
Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
A modular high-level library to train embodied AI agents across a variety of tasks and environments.
Contributions:3 PRs, 25 pushes, 52 branches in 7 months
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