Akshay Kekuda (Preferred)
Akshay Kekuda
Pronouns: he/him
Researcher, Personalization, Walmart
- Joined May 2025
Names
Emails
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@walmart.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
Personalization, Walmart (walmart.com)
2024 – Present
Researcher
Search, Best Buy (bestbuy.com)
2023 – 2024
Intern
Catalog, Amazon (amazon.com)
2022 – 2022
MS student
Computer Science, The Ohio StateUniversity (cse.ohio-state.edu)
2021 – 2022
Undergrad student
Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (nitk.edu.in)
2013 – 2017
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Vision Language Models, object detection, multimodal retrieval
Present
Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Search, Ranking, Large Language Models, Visual Language Models, Small VLMS
2023 – 2024
Natural Language Processing, Long Document Understanding
2021 – 2022
Reinforcement Learning
2020 – 2021