Hema Swetha
Summary
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SeniorHema Koppula is a Staff Research Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. She has driven research-to-product efforts across industry leaders—Apple, Skydio, Amazon—and academia, completing a Ph.D. at Cornell focused on RGB-D perception for assistive robots that earned a Google PhD Fellowship and multiple top-tier publications. Her work has powered autonomous drones, cashier-less retail vision systems, and consumer-scale research at Apple, showing a talent for turning academic advances into robust, production-ready systems. Known for combining deep probabilistic and generative modeling with practical systems engineering, she routinely bridges long-horizon research goals and short-cycle product constraints. Based on her trajectory, she brings both leadership in research initiatives and hands-on implementation experience in deploying real-world perception and robotic systems.
15 years of coding experienceProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
hemakoppula/human_activity_labeling
Mar 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
hemakoppula/human_activity_anticipation
Jun 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:43 commits in 11 months
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