Sameer Dharur
Senior Research Scientist For Generative AI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSameer Dharur is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in generative and multimodal AI, currently driving research at NVIDIA after impactful roles at Apple where he shipped vision–speech–language features for Siri and worked on multimodal LLMs. With ~8 years of industry and academic experience, he blends hands-on systems work from Qualcomm and Oracle with deep research training from Georgia Tech under Dhruv Batra and Devi Parikh. His research focuses on building agents that see, communicate, and act—emphasizing interpretable decision-making and human-like reasoning in navigation and QA tasks. He has a track record of turning research prototypes into shipped product features (e.g., iOS Siri capabilities) and has explored interdisciplinary applications like ML for sustainable transportation policy. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs strong production engineering experience with academic rigor, making him effective at bridging research advances and deployable AI systems.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
opencv6
android6
android-canvas6
facebook5
multimodal3
deep-learning3
computer-vision3
modular3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sameerdharur/background-removal
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
sameerdharur/sorting-vqa
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
A modular framework for vision & language multimodal research from Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
Contributions:10 commits, 23 pushes in 9 months
modular-frameworkvisionvision-languagedeep-learningcomputer-vision
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