Naveen Kodali

Naveen Kodali is a Principal Applied Scientist at Salesforce since February 2024, specializing in speech language models and voice agents. Prior to this role, Naveen served as an Applied Scientist at Cruise from January 2023 to February 2024, focusing on perception for autonomous driving using multimodal modeling techniques, including LiDAR, image/video, and radar. Naveen's experience also includes a position as a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple from February 2019 to January 2023, where similar multimodal modeling work was conducted for autonomous driving. Additionally, Naveen was a Research Assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology from August 2016 to December 2018, concentrating on generative models, following a Master's degree in Computer Science, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.