Sai Bangaru is a research scientist at NVIDIA working on algorithms & compilers for differentiable programming, with applications in graphics & vision. His current research focuses on incorporating scalable, high-performance automatic-differentiation into the Slang shading language.

Sai received his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT CSAIL in April 2024, advised by Prof. Frédo Durand. He previously received M.S. and B.Tech degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras respectively.