Sai Akula
Senior Research Scientist, MSL at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSai Akula is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in generative and multimodal AI, currently advancing post-training techniques for Llama models at Meta after building enterprise LLM systems and research prototypes. With a decade of experience bridging industry and academia, he has held roles from AI engineer to graduate researcher at NYU, where he taught and published work on adversarial robustness, diffusion model efficiency, and perception for autonomous driving. Prior to deep learning, he spent several years in quantitative roles at Goldman Sachs, bringing a pragmatic, product-focused mindset to research and deployment. He combines rigorous academic training (Courant Institute, IIT Bombay) with hands-on systems engineering—designing real-time detection systems and large-scale web platforms during earlier internships and student leadership. Known for accelerating impact (e.g., rapid promotion at Goldman and a return offer from Ola), he thrives at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship and social impact, often translating research into scalable applications.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada
Github Skills (2)
spring6
deep-learning5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Charithaakula/cambrian
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Cambrian-1 is a family of multimodal LLMs with a vision-centric design.
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
Charithaakula/pytorch-Deep-Learning
May 2022 - May 2022
Deep Learning (with PyTorch)
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
pytorchcaffe2deep-learningconvolutional-neural-networkmachine-learning
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