Welcome! I’m happy you found your way here
I am an AI Research Scientist at Axon Enterprise Inc. in Seattle, WA.
Previously, I was a Machine Learning Scientist at Wayfair in Boston, MA, where I post-trained multimodal LLMs for fine-grained retrieval, developed cross-encoder rerankers for catalog deduplication, and designed LLM-as-judge pipelines for relevance evaluation — efforts that together powered product discovery and catalog automation at scale. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Dr. Kevin Bowyer at the Computer Vision Research Lab (CVRL). My doctoral research explored multiple dimensions of face recognition technology, including mitigating bias, optimizing neural networks for efficiency on edge devices, ensuring biometric system security, and improving reliability of face identification search. I also worked on face foundation models with strong text–vision alignment for granular facial attributes. My work has been published at CVPR, ICCV, WACV, FG, IJCB, T-BIOM, and TTS, resulting in 3 patent applications.
I was fortunate to intern at Comcast with the Media Analytics Framework Team in Summer 2024, where I built multimodal models for contextual emotion prediction in video content, leveraging multi-branch transformer architectures, cross-attention mechanisms, and multimodal text encodings.
News
- 2026/08: 🎉 Joined Axon Enterprise Inc. as an AI Research Scientist.
- 2026/06: 🏆 Received the Wayfair Technology Rookie of the Year award. For contributions to CaMmo 2.0 (multimodal encoder service) and Option Grouping (product grouping service). See my manager’s view on this — humbled and honored by this recognition.
- 2026/06: 🏆 Our team received the Wayfair Technology Outstanding Technology Team award.
Proud to have contributed to the Option Grouping (product grouping) service with this team. - 2026/03: 📚 2 papers accepted at CVPR’26.
- 2025/12: 🎓 Successfully defended my PhD dissertation. Officially Dr. Bhatta!
- 2025/08: 🎉 Joined Wayfair as ML Scientist.
- 2025/07: 📚 One paper accepted at CV4BIOM@ICCV’25.
- 2025/06: 🎉 Passed AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate Exam. See my badge!
- 2025/02: 📚 3 papers accepted at IEEE FG’25.
- 2025/01: 📚 1 paper accepted at IEEE TBIOM’25.
- 2024/12: 🎓 Defended my Oral Candidacy. Officially a PhD Candidate Now!
- 2024/06: 📚 1 paper accepted at IEEE IJCB’24.
- 2024/06: 📚 1 paper accepted at IEEE TTS’24.
- 2024/06: 🎉 Started my Internship at Comcast.
- 2024/03: 📚 1 Paper accepted at CVPRW’24.
- 2024/01: 📚 2 Papers accepted at WACV’24.
- 2023/03: 📚 1 Papers accepted at CVPR’23.
- 2023/01: 📚 1 paper accepted to DVPBA@WACV’23.
- 2021/08: 🎓 Started my PhD in CSE Dept. at University of Notre Dame
- 2021/05: 🎓 Graduate from University of Mississippi with B.S (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering
- 2020/01: 🎉 Continuing my Co-op (part-time) for Spring’20 Semester at ThyssenKrupp AG
- 2019/01: 🎉 Started my full-time Engineering Co-op at ThyssenKrupp AG for a year
Timeline
AI Research Scientist
Axon Enterprise Inc. Aug 2026 – Present
Machine Learning Scientist
Wayfair Aug 2025 – Aug 2026 Concurrent with Ph.D., Aug–Dec 2025
Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering
University of Notre Dame, CVRL Aug 2021 – Dec 2025
ML Research Intern
Comcast, Media Analytics Framework Jun – Aug 2024 Internship during Ph.D.
B.S. (Hons), Mechanical Engineering
University of Mississippi Aug 2016 – May 2021
Engineering Co-op
ThyssenKrupp AG Jan 2019 – May 2020 Co-op during undergraduate studiesSelected Publications
Aman Bhatta, Maria Dhakal, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE / CVF CV4BIOM @ International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
Aman Bhatta, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2025. (Oral 🏆)
Aman Bhatta, Domingo Mery, Haiyu Wu, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2025.
Aman Bhatta, Domingo Mery, Haiyu Wu, Joyce Annan, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), 2025.
Aman Bhatta, Haiyu Wu, Kagan Ozturk, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2024.
Aman Bhatta, Domingo Mery, Haiyu Wu, Joyce Annan, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE / CVF TCV @ Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
Haiyu Wu, Grace Bezold, Aman Bhatta, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.