AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo

Bio

Krishna Prasad Srinivasan is a Head of Vision Models at Sarvam, where he led a lean team to train Sarvam Vision, India's first sovereign VLM: a 3B state-space model that topped global OCR benchmarks at launch and led the Indic OCR Bench across 22 languages. He now leads the vision vertical's models, research, and product. Previously, he was Tech Lead for AI at Microsoft Research, where he built multilingual copilots for education and developed Indic translation models that outperformed commercial systems. Before that, Krishna was a researcher at Harvard, where he engineered a novel OCR architecture using contrastive learning that outperformed industry benchmarks on complex multilingual documents.

Sessions

• From Scratch to SOTA: Training a 3B State-Space Vision Model for 1.4 Billion PeopleTuesday, June 30 · 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM · Track 2Vision & OCR