Shalini De Mello is a Director of Research, New Experiences, leading NVIDIA’s AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction (AMRI) Research Group.
Previously, she was a Distinguished Research Scientist in the Learning and Perception Research group at NVIDIA. Her research interests are in AI, computer vision and computer graphics and human-computer interaction. She has co-authored scores of peer-reviewed publications and patents, serves as an area chair and is a frequent keynote presenter at all top-tier AI conferences. Her inventions have contributed to several NVIDIA AI products, including DriveIX, Maxine and TAO Toolkit. She received her Doctoral and Master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. For details see her Curriculum Vitae.
Shalini’s AMRI research group aims to create interactive physical AIs capable of operating in dynamic 4D worlds. It spans fundamental research on the algorithms, theory and application of human-AI interaction and 4D world modeling using new ideas in AI, neural rendering, graphics, generative modeling, large language models, human behavior understanding and digital human creation.