Ramakanth Pasunuru
Senior AI Research Scientist at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRamakanth Pasunuru is a Senior AI Research Scientist at Meta AI with 11 years of experience building multimodal large language models that process text, images, and beyond, with a strong emphasis on controllability and alignment to human values. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and blends academic rigor with production-focused research to push model capabilities while mitigating risks. Prior roles span research at UNC, engineering at UnitedHealth Group, and international internships, reflecting a practical foundation in signal processing and systems. Based in Seattle, he brings deep expertise in model design and evaluation and a track record of translating PhD-level research into scalable, safety-minded ML systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.tech + M.tech, Instrumentation and Signal Processing, B.tech + M.tech, Instrumentation and Signal Processing at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
huggingface10
large-scale9
scale9
transformers9
docker9
few-shot-learning6
arxiv6
acl4
nlp3
pytorch3
natural-language-processing3
language-model1
fine-tuning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ramakanth-pasunuru/video_caption_eval_python3
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 2 months
ramakanth-pasunuru/CAS-MAS
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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