Shantanu Agarwal

ML Engineer @ Meta

📍 San Francisco

Focused on building customer-focused AI products, on a 1x→100x journey.

ML • DL • AI • CV • NLP

Experience

Jun 25 - Present ML Engineer @ Meta, Menlo Park
May 24 - Jun 25 Staff Engineer, AI @ Balbix, San Jose
Feb 23 - May 24 Sr. Engineer, AI @ Balbix, San Jose
May 22 - Aug 22 AI/ML Engineer Intern @ Balbix, San Jose
Mar 20 - Jul 21 Project Scientist @ IIT Delhi, India
Jun 17 - Feb 20 Sr. Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, India

Education

Feb 21 - Dec 22 MS Computer Science @ UMass Amherst, USA
Jul 13 - Jun 17 B.Tech, Mathematics and Computing @ IIT Guwahati, India

Recent Projects

A web-based VR game inspired by Beat Saber. Uses webcam hand tracking via MediaPipe to slash through blocks. Built with React, Three.js, and features 8-bit melodies.

An automation system that fetches AI news from Gmail newsletters, generates summaries using AI, creates videos with text-to-speech, and automatically uploads them to YouTube daily.

AI-powered product photography that transforms amateur shots into professional, conversion-optimized images in 30 seconds.

Publications

2024
Thamizharasan, V., Liu, D., Agarwal, S., Fisher, M., Gharbi, M., Wang, O., Jacobson, A. and Kalogerakis, E. VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion. CVPR, 2024
2021
Raghu, D.*, Agarwal, S.*, Joshi, S., Mausam. End-to-End Learning of Flowchart Grounded Task-Oriented Dialogs. EMNLP, 2021
* Equal Contribution

Events & Talks

Sep 2025 Faculty Development Program on Ethical AI for Knowledge Discovery — NIT Jaipur
AI Fundamentals, Speaker
Mar 2025 NVIDIA GTC 2025 — San Jose, CA
Dec 2024 AWS re:Invent 2024 — Las Vegas, NV
Mar 2024 NVIDIA GTC 2024 — San Jose, CA
Nov 2021 EMNLP 2021 — Online

Blogs & Notes

🌿 Chaos Garden - Tech Blog
📚 Readings