Neel Joshi
Neel Joshi is a Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, where he manages the Computer Vision Group. He works in computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics, and has published on topics including vision-language models, contrastive learning, and image deblurring. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and has been at Microsoft Research since 2010. His recent work includes research on spatial reasoning for vision-language models and contributions to the Phi-4-reasoning-vision model.
“Neel Joshi is VLM lead. Responsible for adapting the Phi-family vision-language model into 'Phi-Phy,' the physically grounded backbone that gives Rho its spatial reasoning capabilities.”
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