Gowthami Somepalli
Scholar

Gowthami Somepalli

Google Scholar ID: T2ezBDsAAAAJ
University of Maryland, College Park
Machine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,450
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
19
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of Kulkarni Fellowship, Amazon Research Fellowship, CVPR Doctoral Consortium Award, and Ann-Wylie Dissertation Fellowship; 2 papers accepted to Neurips'24; 1 paper accepted to ECCV'24; CinePile got best paper award at Synth4CV workshop at CVPR; First last author paper CinePile is out!
Research Experience
  • During her PhD, she has worked on various research projects including understanding and mitigating copying in diffusion models, creating a long-video understanding dataset - CinePile, among others. Before starting her PhD, she had 8 years of industry experience in product and engineering roles.
Education
  • Currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Tom Goldstein. Received bachelor's degree from IIT Madras.
Background
  • Research interests: The intersection of Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision, aiming to build robust generalist models. Known as 'that memorization girl' for writing multiple papers on memorization in diffusion models. Recently started working on video LLMs and created a long-video understanding benchmark - CinePile.
Miscellany
  • Always open for new collaborations and willing to provide mentorship.