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Senthil Purushwalkam

Senior Research Scientist

Salesforce AI Research
Palo Alto, CA

Hello! I am a Senior AI Research Scientist at Salesforce, specializing in Computer Vision and NLP.

At Salesforce, my work includes:

  • Developing cutting-edge large multimodal models
  • Improving the fidelity and controllability of visual generation models
  • Enhancing NLP models for RAG systems
  • Minimizing hallucinations in LLMs and multimodal models
  • Creating tailored language and multimodal solutions for enterprise applications

Before joining Salesforce, I received a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Abhinav Gupta. In the past, I have worked on a very diverse range of topics in Computer Vision, Robotics and NLP. Check out my papers below and reach out to me if you would like to chat!

Education

  • PhD in Robotics, 2022

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  • MS in Robotics, 2017

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  • BTech Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 2014

    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati

News

  • 22 August 2024

    Released an open source video generation model - xGen-VideoSyn
  • 16 August 2024

    Released an open source state-of-the-art multimodal model - BLIP-3 (xGen-MM)
  • 25 Jan 2024

    Paper on personalized image generation - BootPIG
  • 21 November 2023

    CVPR Paper on aligning diffusion models to human preferences. Check it out here
  • 15 October 2023

    Paper on Image-to-3D generation accepted at Neurips 2023. Stop by at our poster to chat!

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