David Acuna

David Acuna is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research in the Language and Cognition Research Group, where he works with Yejin Choi. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Computer Vision from the University of Toronto, advised by Sanja Fidler, and was the first full-time employee of the NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab. His research spans reasoning models, synthetic data, inference-time scaling, and multimodal representation learning, and he is a recipient of the 2020 Microsoft Ada Lovelace Fellowship.