# Harshith Padigela > Foundation Models @ PathAI Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harshithpadigela I'm an ML engineer/researcher with strong background in software engineering interested in building products which positively impact the world. I'm excited at using machine learning to solve problems which can improve people's everyday lives. I'm currently at PathAI leading our foundation model and multi-modal AI efforts. I also lead the development of the internal model development and deployment platform. Previously I was a masters student in CS at UMass Amherst, working on open-domain question answering at the intersection of natural language processing and information retrieval. In an earlier life I worked as a software developer at Adobe on the Captivate E-learning product and interned with Qualcomm ## Work Experience ### Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ PathAI Jan 2023 – Present Building state-of-the-art multi-modal foundation models and agents. ### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ PathAI Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ML Products for Diagnosis and Biomarker Prediction ### Machine Learning Engineer II @ PathAI Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boston, MA Built the core Machine Learning Platform which supports research and production workflows. ML Research on interpretable and data efficient ML published at NeurIPS and WACV ### Machine Learning Engineer @ PathAI Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts Built segmentation models for giga-pixel pathology images ### Graduate Student Researcher @ University of Massachusetts Amherst Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Amherst 1) Understanding knowledge and resoning for open domain question answering 2) Neural passage re-ranking for question answering ### Deep Learning Intern @ PathAI Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts Deep learning for pathology ### Industry Independent Study @ IBM Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Amherst - Open domain question answering in the context of standardized science questions. - Showed knowledge, reasoning and context necessary for solving the ARC challenge - The work was awarded the best paper award at ACL MRQA workshop 2018 ### Member Of Technical Staff 2 @ Adobe Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India ### Member Of Technical Staff @ Adobe Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India ### Co-Founder & Machine Learning Engineer @ FeltSo Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad Area, India FeltSo is India’s first of its kind Artificial Intelligence startup that provides summary of customer opinions on a product/service. -Developed an aspect based sentiment analysis engine to summarize mobile phone reviews. -Worked with various clients in integrating the solution with their products. -Among the 10 startups selected for incubation by Spark10 accelerator from over 500 startups. ### Engineering Intern @ Qualcomm Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hyderabad Area, India Developed an on-device profiling tool for the hexagon digital signal processor(DSP). Prototyped a smartphone powered haptic feedback mechanism aimed at helping blind people visualize objects as part of the intern Idea Quest. Was offered a Pre-placement offer (PPO) post completion of the ineternship. ### Chief Organiser @ Guwahati Half Marathon Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Guwahati Area, India Chief Organizer for the 5th edition of the largest half marathon of North East India. Lead the team which went on to organize one of the most successful editions, witnessing a participation of close to 5000 runners comprising of enthusiastic people from guwahati and professionals from across the world. Organised with the theme 'Run for a better tomorrow', it provided a platform for people from different walks of life to come and spread their cognizance and sense of concern for a better society. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harshithpadigela --- Source: https://flows.cv/harshithpadigela JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harshithpadigela/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31