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About

Ritik Bompilwar is currently a Generative AI Product Development Co-op at the Burnes Center for Social Change and an M.S. candidate in Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences in Boston. He has also served as a Teaching Assistant for the Programming Design Paradigm (CS 5010) and Object-Oriented Design (CS 3500) courses.

His research focuses on advancing vision-language models to enhance visual understanding. Ritik draws on a strong foundation in computer vision developed during his time at Big Vision under the mentorship of Dr. Satya Mallick (CEO, OpenCV) and as a MITACS GRI supervised by Dr. Travis Esau at Dalhousie University. These experiences inspire him to build multimodal generative AI tools that address real-world challenges and create meaningful impact. Originally from India, Ritik holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Naya Raipur. Outside work, he enjoys photography, films, and television series. He shares his thoughts on AI and emerging technologies on his blog at visualai.blog and documents his journey and projects at ritik.io