Raja Kumar

About

I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Ram Nevatia. My research focuses on Computer Vision and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), with a particular emphasis on improving their visual perception and reasoning capabilities through post-training techniques, including reinforcement learning.

Recently, I was an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon AGI, where I worked on improving multimodal reasoning in VLMs. Prior to joining USC, I earned my M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I was advised by Prof. James Davis. I also worked at Samsung Research, focusing on data-free quantization of deep learning models. I received my B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

I am actively seeking research internship opportunities for Summer 2027, particularly in multimodal learning, vision-language models, and post-training. Feel free to reach out at kumarraj@usc.edu if you see a potential fit!