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My background, experience, teaching, talks, and the researchers I have mentored.

Bio

Sanjoy Chowdhury is a Research Scientist at Apple Machine Learning Research. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Dinesh Manocha, Paul Chrisman Iribe Chair of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering and Distinguished University Professor, where his research focused on building multimodal systems that integrate robust perception with grounding, reasoning, and cross-modal synthesis. His recent work advances multimodal large language models through post-training strategies that improve efficiency, reliability, and adaptability.

His research has received conference highlights and special mentions at leading AI venues such as CVPR and ECCV. He is a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship, was selected for the ICCV Doctoral Consortium, and co-organized the ICCV 2025 workshop Generative AI for Audio-Visual Content Creation, Scalable Learning and Optimization for Efficient Multimodal AI Agents workshop at ICML 2026, and the Generative AI for Audio-Visual Content Creation workshop at ECCV 2026. He has also received Outstanding Reviewer awards from NeurIPS (2025, 2026) and CVPR (2026).

Experience & education

Education

IIIT Hyderabad

MTech, Computer Science & Engineering

Professional experience

KAUST

Visiting Researcher (remote)

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Machine Learning Scientist

Talks

Teaching

University of Maryland, College Park

Graduate Teaching Assistant

IIIT Hyderabad

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Mentees