Jacob Kovarskiy

Joined

September 2025

Names

Jacob Kovarskiy (Preferred)

Emails

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2025 – 2025

Researcher

SewerAI (sewerai.com)

2024 – 2025

Researcher

Clarifai (clarifai.com)

2022 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ram Narayanan

2016 – 2021

Expertise

Computer Vision

Present

Reinforcement Learning

Present

Multimodal Modeling

Present

Publications

MapRef: A Referring Expression Comprehension Benchmark for Maps
Michael J. Bianco, Jacob Kovarskiy, Raphael Tang, Qi Zhang, Xiaojie Guo, Jay Patravali, Cassandra Burgess, Heming Liao, Matthew Scott Washburn, Suvam Bag, Talha Kilic, Zirui Xu, Nikolaos Karianakis, Fuxun Yu
- ML4RS @ ICLR 2026 (Main)
- Readers: Everyone
MapRef: A Benchmark for Referring Expression Comprehension on Maps
Michael J. Bianco, Jacob Kovarskiy, Raphael Tang, Jay Patravali, Cassandra Burgess, Heming Liao, Matt Washburn, Qi Zhang, Suvam Bag, Talha Kilic, Xiaojie Guo, Zirui Xu, Fuxun Yu
- Submitted to AgriAI 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Geo-R1: Unlocking VLM Geospatial Reasoning with Cross-View Reinforcement Learning
Chenhui Xu, Fuxun Yu, Michael J. Bianco, Jacob Kovarskiy, Raphael Tang, Qi Zhang, Zirui Xu, Will LeVine, Brandon Dubbs, Heming Liao, Cassandra Burgess, Suvam Bag, Jay Patravali, Rupanjali Kukal, Mikael Figueroa, Rishi Madhok, Nikolaos Karianakis, Jinjun Xiong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors