Vaishnav Potlapalli

I am currently a founding engineer at a stealth-stage startup, building AI Agents for marketing. I recently graduated from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Stern School of Business, where I focused on the intersection of computing and entrepreneurship. My broader interests lie in AI Agents and computer vision, and I previously worked as a research assistant at MBZUAI on image restoration and video action recognition. When I’m not coding or exploring AI frontiers, you’ll often find me immersed in sci-fi worlds or battling it out in Dota.

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Experience
MBZUAI

Research Assistant July 2022 - July 2023
MBZUAI
Supervisor: Dr. Salman Khan
Research Area: Computer Vision

Dhan AI

Machine Learning Engineer April 2020 - April 2022
Dhan AI
Software: Pytorch, Python, HF-Transformers, SQL, Tensorflow, Docker

CVSSP

Research Assistant May 2021 - June 2022
CVSSP, University of Surrey
Supervisor: Dr. Yi-Zhe Song
Research Area: Cross-Modal Image Retrieval, Active Learning for Computer Vision

IIIT

Research Intern Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
CVIT, IIIT
Supervisors: Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla
Research Area: Document Analysis, Object Detection

Publication
PromptIR PromptIR: Prompting for All-in-One Blind Image Restoration
Vaishnav Rao Potlapalli, Syed Waqas Zamir, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan
NeurIPS, 2023
Code / Paper
Sketch3T Sketch3T: Test-time Training for Zero-Shot SBIR
Aneeshan Sain, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Vaishnav Rao Potlapalli, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Tao Xiang, Yi-Zhe Song
CVPR, 2022
Paper
MediTables MediTables: A New Dataset and Deep Network for Multi-Category Table Localization in Medical Documents
Akshay Deshpande, Vaishnav Rao Potlapalli, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla
ICDARW - GREC, 2021
Code / Paper
Education
NYU

Master of Science Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
New York University

MEC

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in CSE Aug 2016 - May 2020
Mahindra University Ecole Centrale School of Engineering