Tarun Gupta
AI Research Scientist at Waymo
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTarun Gupta is an AI research scientist with 11 years of experience applying foundation models, large language models, reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems to real-world problems, currently working on autonomy at Waymo in London. His trajectory spans deep research—PhD from Oxford—and industry roles at Microsoft, NVIDIA, and multiple internships at Waymo, blending rigorous theory with production-focused experimentation. He has advanced multi-agent RL methods (including successor-features approaches) that improved transfer and scalability, and has practical experience improving distributional realism for learned policies in self-driving stacks. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, Tarun has a track record of shipping experimental features and robust implementations from open-source XMPP clients to large-scale AI systems. He’s drawn to work that combines scientific novelty with societal impact, and often seeks cross-disciplinary collaboration to bridge academic insight and production constraints.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of OxfordMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at IIIT HyderabadSenior Secondary, Senior Secondary at St. Xavier's School, Jaipur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (28)
xmpp10
qt10
image-synthesis10
lua10
chat10
scons10
cross-platform9
instant-messaging9
swift9
supernova8
science8
java8
jabber8
messenger8
astrophysics7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tarun018/swift
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:175 pushes, 43 branches in 5 months
xmppswiftiosxmpp-clientxmpp-library
tarun018/tarun018.github.io
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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