Summary
Vardaan Pahuja is a PhD student in Computer Science at The Ohio State University with a decade of experience bridging research and engineering in AI, specializing in LLM agents and multimodal systems. His work spans top research labs—internships at Microsoft Research, Google Brain, Bosch AI, and industry research at IBM—where he focused on web/OS agents, vision-and-language, and neuro-symbolic approaches. Comfortable moving between theory and systems, he has a track record of deploying deep learning for real-world problems from egocentric video understanding to cognitive text analytics. Trained at IIT Kharagpur and Université de Montréal, he combines strong foundational engineering with current cutting-edge agent architectures. Colleagues describe him as someone who situates ambitious research questions within practical implementation constraints, making him effective at turning prototypes into reproducible experiments.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Université de Montréal
10+2, 10+2 at Swami Sant Dass Public School
Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Minor in CS, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Minor in CS at IIT Kharagpur
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English, Hindi, Punjabi