Vipin Pillai
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVipin Pillai is an Applied Scientist II at Amazon working on Just Walk Out technology with a decade of experience blending industrial R&D and production computer vision. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMBC where his research focused on explainability for deep neural networks and self-supervised representation learning, bringing rigorous research methods to applied product problems. Vipin’s internship work across Amazon Lab126 and Amazon Go included practical advances in knowledge distillation, active data augmentation, and robust detection models that improved low-data category performance by measurable margins. Earlier roles in telecom and analytics gave him a strong software engineering foundation in scalable systems and J2EE enterprise design, enabling him to bridge prototype research and deployed solutions. Based in Seattle, he combines academic depth with hands-on deployment experience, often investigating failure modes and model explainability beyond standard accuracy metrics.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCSSC, Distinction, SSC, Distinction at J.N. Petit Technical High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, First Class with Distinction at Maharashtra Institute of TechnologyHSC, Distinction, HSC, Distinction at Laxmanrao Apte Jr. College
English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam
Github Skills (37)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
benchmarking9
adversarial-machine-learning8
robustness8
reinforcement-learning8
security8
pytorch7
action-recognition6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UMBCvision/Explainable-Models-with-Consistent-Interpretations
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 3 months
UCDvision/CGC
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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