Yogesh Balaji

I am a staff research scientist and research manager at NVIDIA Cosmos Lab. I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, where I was advised by Prof. Rama Chellappa and Prof. Soheil Feizi. Prior to UMD, I obtained a B.Tech with a major in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Operations Research from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

My research interests are in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on large-scale generative modeling. I currently work on building world foundation models, where I focus on large-scale pretraining.