Suren Kumar

Suren Kumar is a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon working on multimodal ML and generative AI to enhance visual customer experience and reduce listing friction for selling partners. Before Amazon, Suren was Chief Scientist at Markable AI, a visual search company that enabled customers to find the exact products seen in images and videos. He did a Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo in dynamic SLAM and a postdoc at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focusing on long-term traffic prediction on highways for autonomous vehicle safety. He has published over 20 research papers at major robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence venues and holds 4 US patents.