Siddharth Patki
AI Research Scientist at General Motors
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddharth Patki is a Principal Research Scientist with nine years of experience building foundation models and applied AI for robot manipulation, navigation, and human-robot collaboration. He has driven multi-modal LLM post-training work at Meta (including core contributions to Llama4 post-training) and translated research into production-ready robotics solutions at Amazon and General Motors. His PhD and postdoc focused on language-grounded perception and multi-agent task planning, producing open-source tools like the H2SL ROS package and multiple top-tier publications. Now at NVIDIA, he focuses on foundation models for Physical AI, blending deep learning, simulation-driven datasets, and RL/SFT techniques to close real-world model gaps. Colleagues note his uncommon ability to bridge rigorous academic research with fast-paced, product-oriented model engineering across perception, planning, and multi-modal LLM stacks.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute Of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Rochester
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
robotics10
modular10
python10
simulator10
ai10
reinforcement-learning10
machine-learning9
artificial-intelligence9
deep-learning9
homography3
camera-calibration3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sidpatki/darknet
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Convolutional Neural Networks
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
deep-learningconvolutionalneural-networksneural-networktensorflow
sidpatki/OIDv4_ToolKit
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Download and visualize single or multiple classes from the huge Open Images v4 dataset
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 years 2 months
visualizeopen-imagespythondataset
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