Summary
Shubham Goel is a 3D computer vision and machine learning researcher-engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI in Berkeley. He holds a PhD candidacy from UC Berkeley and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, and has blended academic rigor with industry impact through roles at Avataar, Facebook AI, and university research positions. His work spans foundational vision research and applied ML, including summer internships that resulted in peer-reviewed contributions to verification and image restoration. Comfortable moving between research and production, he brings deep expertise in geometry-aware vision methods and probabilistic modeling. Unusually, his career pairs high-impact academic collaborations with hands-on product research at AI startups, making him effective at translating novel algorithms into deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula
English, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi