Samar Khanna
MS CS @ Stanford | CS @ Cornell | ML @ Aurora
I am an ML engineer at Aurora, working on long-range perception for autonomous trucks.
Recently, I received my MS in CS with a distinction in research from Stanford University, specializing in AI. I worked with Prof. Stefano Ermon on self-supervised learning, generative (diffusion) models, and on building foundation models for geospatial tasks. My research interests center on making ML models generalize effectively to new, real-world data, especially to solve societally relevant tasks such as sustainability.
Before Stanford, I completed my Bachelor’s in CS at Cornell University, where I did research with Dean Kavita Bala and Prof. Bharath Hariharan. I was also actively involved as a team-lead in Cornell Data Science, a student-run project team.
Professionally, I have completed internships at NVIDIA and at Uber ATG (twice), where I was given a chance to hone my real-world ML engineering skills.
For fun, I like to swim and play tennis– to relax, I enjoy reading books and watching movies.
Announcements
Jun 18, 2023 | I graduated from Stanford! |
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May 29, 2021 | 4 years of Cornell all wrapped up… |