चरैवेति चरैवेति

keep going, keep going

— Aitareya Brahmana, Rig Veda

Vaishnav Potlapalli

Researcher and engineer at the intersection of computer vision, LLMs, and AI agents. M.S. in CS from NYU, previously at MBZUAI working on image restoration and video retrieval. I care about teaching machines to see, reason about what they see, and act on it.

✦ Open to work — looking for research engineering / applied ML roles in vision-language models, AI agents, or multimodal systems. Let's talk →

Selected Papers

Vaishnav Rao Potlapalli, Syed Waqas Zamir, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan
Omkar Thawakar, Dmitry Demidov, Vaishnav Potlapalli, Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy Bogireddy, Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala, Alaa Mostafa Lasheen, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan
Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy Bogireddy, Abrar Majeedi, Viswanath Gajjala, Zhuoyan Xu, Siddhant Rai, Vaishnav Potlapalli
Aneeshan Sain, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Vaishnav Rao Potlapalli, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Tao Xiang, Yi-Zhe Song
Akshay Deshpande, Vaishnav Rao Potlapalli, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Bookshelf & Watchlist

Some things that shaped how I think — about intelligence, about the universe, about building things. Not a complete list, just what I'd hand someone if they asked what I'm about.

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
The Book of Why
Judea Pearl

Beyond Work

I'm drawn to questions at the edge of what we know — whether that's the limits of what a model can learn to perceive, or what's actually out there past the heliosphere. I read a lot about astronomy and space exploration. The best sci-fi, to me, uses technology as a lens for asking what it means to be human. I also play Dota 2 — a game that, at its best, is a test of coordination under uncertainty.