Vishnu Sarukkai
Doctoral Researcher at Stanford University
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishnu Sarukkai is a doctoral researcher at Stanford with a decade of experience at the intersection of machine learning and computer graphics, focused on enabling LLM agents to rapidly specialize and self-improve for task-specific workflows. His work spans controllable image generation and practical systems, informed by internships at Pixar (RenderMan volumetrics), Facebook NLP, and a recent ML advisory role for a startup acquired by Zillow. He brings a strong empirical grounding from publications on satellite image restoration and early projects in path guiding and light transport, blending academic rigor with product-facing ML. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep research with applied engineering—often tying theoretical ideas to real-world systems and acquisitions—and is advised by Kayvon Fatahalian.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
rapid5
evaluation5
robustness4
machine-learning3
reinforcement-learning3
fairness-ml3
chrome-extension2
data-exploration2
chrome2
privacy-policy2
privacy1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VSAnimator/vsanimator.github.io
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
VSAnimator/stgan
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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