Pratik Vaishnavi
Research Scientist, Machine Learning at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolPratik Vaishnavi is a machine learning research scientist and PhD candidate specializing in adversarial ML, robustness, and secure training methods for visual recognition systems. With a decade of experience spanning industry research roles at Meta, SonyAI, and Amazon, he has delivered practical defenses for object detectors and camera-based systems while cutting training costs and GPU usage through dataset distillation. His work bridges core research—transfer learning, distillation, domain generalization, self-supervision—with production-minded applied projects like spoof-image synthesis and video-based anomaly detection that produced deployable pipelines. Based in Mountain View, he combines deep expertise in computer vision and deep learning with an interest in environmental and cost efficiency of ML training, and has a track record of turning novel synthetic-data ideas into measurable robustness gains.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Communication Engineering at National Institute of Technology SuratDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
11reputation
750reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (39)
video-understanding8
theano8
temporal7
stream7
deep-learning6
pdf6
python6
adversarial-machine-learning5
classifier5
benchmark5
pytorch5
machine-learning4
datasets4
dog4
robustness4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pratik18v/sst
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
My implementation (PyTorch) for the paper SST: Single-Stream Temporal Action Proposals (http://vision.stanford.edu/pdf/buch2017cvpr.pdf).
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
pytorchstanfordaction-detectionpdfvision
hunterconan/small-image-classifier
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:23 commits in 4 days
image-classifierdogclassifiermachine-learning
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