Aniruddha Kembhavi
Also known as Ani Kembhavi
Aniruddha Kembhavi is an AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he builds frontier multimodal models. From 2015 to 2024 he worked at the Allen Institute for AI in Seattle, becoming senior director of computer vision in March 2023. ProcTHOR, a paper he coauthored, won a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award, and in 2024 he coauthored the Molmo and PixMo paper. Before joining Ai2, he spent about five years at Microsoft on Bing image and video search, after completing a PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park. In December 2024 he became a director at Wayve in London, building world models for autonomous driving.
Timeline
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2004–2010
PhD studies at Maryland
He studies at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2004 to 2010, and he holds a PhD from there.
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2010–2015
Bing image and video search
He joins Microsoft as a senior research software developer in July 2010, working on Bing Image and Video Search until March 2015.
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March 2015
Joining the Allen Institute
He joins the Allen Institute for AI as a senior research scientist in March 2015.
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2022
A NeurIPS Outstanding Paper
He coauthors ProcTHOR, a framework for procedural generation of embodied AI environments, which wins a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award.
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March 2023–December 2024
Senior director of computer vision
In March 2023 he becomes senior director of computer vision at Ai2 in Seattle, with research teams focused on multimodal AI and embodied AI.
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September 2024
The Molmo model family
He coauthors the Molmo and PixMo paper, which Ai2 introduces in September 2024 as a family of multimodal models.
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December 2024–April 2026
A director at Wayve
He becomes a director at Wayve in London in December 2024, building world models for autonomous driving.
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Since 2026
An AI researcher at Meta
He joins Meta Superintelligence Labs as an AI researcher in April 2026, building frontier multimodal models.
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