Hammad Ayyubi

I work at Google DeepMind on Vision-Language Understanding and Generation research.

My research interests focuses on Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Commonsense Reasoning. In particular, I am interested in building systems that can reason about our world in an interpretable, robust, and trustworthy manner. This involves extensive work with LLMs, agents, tools, and instruction-tuning.

Previously, I finished my PhD at the Dept. of Computer Sicence, Columbia University, advised by Prof. Shih-Fu Chang.

I have been fortunate to have worked with some amazing people via internships at Microsoft, Google and Adobe – Jianwei Yang, Oriana Riva, Tianqi Liu, Arsha Nagrani, Mingda Zhang, Anurag Arnab, and Vlad Morariu.

Prior to joining Columbia, I finished my Master’s at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Gary Cottrell. I also worked with Prof. Manmohan Chandraker and Prof. David Kriegman during that time. I finished my Bachelor’s at Indian Institute of Technology, BHU (IIT, BHU).