Sachit Menon
Graduate Student Researcher
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSachit Menon is a PhD candidate and graduate student researcher at Columbia University with 9+ years of ML and computer vision research experience focused on multimodal foundation models, agentic reasoning, and inference-time methods. He has bridged academia and industry—contributing to Gemini 2.5 and publishing a video reasoning benchmark at ICCV 2025 during a research visit to Google DeepMind, and developing multimodal LLM+diffusion systems at Meta (CVPR 2024). His work spans training, post-training (SFT/RL), tool-using LLM agents that generate code for vision tools (ViperGPT), and designing evaluations and guardrails to improve reliability and safety. Sachit combines large-scale distributed experimentation with careful dataset curation and failure-mode analysis, having worked with annotation pipelines and metrics for video understanding. He’s on the job market for Research Scientist roles in vision-language models, multimodal evaluation, RL/post-training, and trustworthy AI. Notably, his projects emphasize practical agent workflows—programmatic tool orchestration and inference-time compute scaling—to make multimodal reasoning robust in real-world settings.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, University of North TexasBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Columbia University
French, Japanese
Github Skills (170)
python10
generative10
visual-studio10
editor10
siggraph10
nlp10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
natural-language-processing10
upsampling10
visual-studio-code10
pytorch10
microsoft10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sachit-menon/classify_by_description_release
Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 comments, 7 issues in 1 year 5 months
sachit-menon/arxiv_rss
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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