Summary
Sameep Vani is a Senior Data Scientist and MS Computer Science candidate at ASU with six years of experience building production-ready AI systems and research-driven video understanding models. He bridges academic research and startup execution—authoring the TimeWar temporal benchmark that revealed a 28% gap in temporal understanding and founding the AI engineering stack at YC-backed Sphinx to deliver 94% accurate compliance automation. His work spans multimodal RAG systems, Video-LLM fine-tuning, and preference-data pipelines for DPO, with practical experience designing Django/Postgres architectures and scalable media retrieval pipelines. Based in San Jose, he combines hands-on model development with product-facing engineering, actively contributing to open-source and keeping pace with the latest CV and NLP literature.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Ahmedabad University
Higher Secondary Mathematics and Computer Science, Higher Secondary Mathematics and Computer Science at The New Tulip International School - India
10/10 CGPA 10th Grade, 10/10 CGPA 10th Grade at St Kabir Institute of Professional Studies
English, Gujarati, Hindi