Summary
Shefali Garg is a research engineer with ~10 years of experience building large-scale AI systems, currently focused on GenAI and multimodal assistant modeling. She has led work at Google DeepMind and Google’s Speech Research team developing and fine-tuning LLMs and ASR models using PEFT, SFT, and RLHF, with applied expertise in self-/semi-/unsupervised learning, personalization, and bias mitigation. Her publications include improving recognition for African American English and large-scale domain adaptation, evidencing both strong research and production impact. Earlier roles span product-facing engineering at Adobe and ML internships that combined systems thinking with practical deployment. Based in Mountain View, she blends academic rigor from Carnegie Mellon with hands-on systems delivery, often optimizing for data efficiency and on-device constraints. Colleagues describe her strength as bridging research and engineering to ship robust, equitable speech and language technologies.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Seedling Modern High School, Jaipur
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, French