Bhavan Jasani

Applied Scientist · Computer Vision · Multimodal AI · Synthetic Data

I build practical machine learning systems at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, and reasoning.

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About

I’m an Applied Scientist who brings research to production, specializing in computer vision and multimodal machine learning. My work focuses on two areas:

  1. Multi-modal learning - across images, text, video, audio, and structured data
  2. Synthetic data generation & annotation - with humans and AI in the loop to overcome scarce or hard-to-label data

Areas of expertise: Foundation Model Post-Training, Multimodal Learning, Synthetic Data Generation, Visually Rich Document Understanding, Visual Grounding, Chart Reasoning & Visual Question Answering, and Multi-node Distributed Training.

Looking ahead: I’m excited to apply my AI skills to physical robotics (humanoid robots, self-driving cars) and healthcare (genomics, drug discovery) - areas where research can have real societal impact.

Experience

  1. Amazon AWS AI Labs

    Amazon AWS AI Labs

    Applied Scientist (Computer Vision Research)

    Sep 2019 – Present

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

    Research Assistant (Multi-modal Emotion Recognition)

    Oct 2017 – Aug 2019

  3. Nanyang Technological University

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Research Assistant (Hardware-efficient Computer Vision)

    Jan 2016 – May 2017

Selected Publications

  1. Chart VQA

    Synthesize Step-by-Step: Tools, Templates and LLMs as Data Generators for Reasoning-Based Chart VQA

    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

    B Jasani*, Z Li*, P Tang, S Ghadar

    Project Page | PDF | arXiv

  2. YORO

    YORO: Lightweight End-to-End Visual Grounding

    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022

    CH Ho, S Appalaraju, B Jasani, R Manmatha, N Vasconcelos

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  3. DocFormer

    DocFormer: End-to-End Transformer for Document Understanding

    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021

    S Appalaraju, B Jasani, BU Kota, Y Xie, R Manmatha

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  4. AMLC2021VQA_1

    End-to-End Visual Question Answering on Document Images

    Amazon Machine Learning Conference (AMLC), 2021

    B Jasani*, Y Xie*, R Manmatha

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  5. AMLC2021VQA_2

    Exploiting Spatial Layout in Document Question Answering using Transformers

    Amazon Machine Learning Conference (AMLC), 2021

    Y Xie, B Pang, Y Zhang, B Jasani, V Mahadevan, R Manmatha

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  6. MovieQA

    Are We Asking the Right Questions in MovieQA?

    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2019

    [Spotlight oral presentation]

    B Jasani, R Girdhar, D Ramanan

    Project Page | PDF

  7. Pose Action Recognition

    Skeleton-based Zero Shot Action Recognition in Joint Pose-Language Semantic Space

    arXiv, 2019

    B Jasani, A Mazagonwalla

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  8. CMU Thesis

    Automatic detection of human affective behavior in dyadic conversations

    CMU RI Technical Report (Master's Thesis), 2019

    B Jasani

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  9. Learning Sampling Policies

    Learning sampling policies for domain adaptation?

    arXiv, 2019<< /p>

    Y Patel*, K Chitta*, B Jasani*

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  10. JRTIP FAST Corner

    Data-path unrolling with logic folding for area-time-efficient FPGA-based FAST corner detector

    Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 2019

    SK Lam, T Lim, M Wu, B Cao, B Jasani

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  11. T-CSVT Harris Corner

    Threshold-Guided Design and Optimization for Harris Corner Detector Architecture

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Journal, 2017

    B Jasani, SK Lam, PK Meher, M Wu

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  12. Area-time FAST Corner

    Area-time efficient FAST corner detector using data-path transposition

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Journal, 2017

    SK Lam, T Lim, M Wu, B Cao, B Jasani

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  13. Bachelor Thesis

    Accelerating Feature Detectors For Real-Time Vision-Based Applications

    Bachelor's Thesis, 2016

    B Jasani

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Patents

  1. Global Prompts with Linear Adapter Tuning for Regression-Free Model Update

    US Patent 85,779,920 — filed 2023

    B. Jasani, P. Tan, P. Zhu, R. Manmatha, V. Mahadevan, Y. Xie

  2. Document Visual Question Answering with Multimodal Transformer Encoder–Decoder Models

    US Patent 85,528,792 — filed 2022

    B. Jasani, N. Sankaran, P. Zhu, R. Manmatha, Y. Xie

Academic Services

  1. Program Committee

    • International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2025
    • Transferring and Adapting Source Knowledge in Computer Vision (TASK-CV) Workshop, ICCV 2019

  2. Reviewer

    • Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
    • Amazon Computer Vision Conference (ACVC)
    • Amazon Research Awards
    • Book chapters – “Data Augmentation with Python”, Packt Publishing, 2023

Curriculum Vitae

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Fun Stuff

I enjoy partner dancing (Fusion and Salsa), have a deep passion for aviation and am working toward my private pilot license. I also love attending meditation retreats and going biking in my free time.