Balaji Vasan Srinivasan
Principal Scientist
Bangalore, India
Balaji completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Maryland in September 2011. His thesis was on Scalable Learning Methods for Speaker Recognition and Geostatistics. He completed his M.S. in electrical engineering from University of Maryland in 2008 and B.E. in electrical engineering from Anna University (India) in 2006. His work experience includes research internships at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (May – Aug 2007) and Xerox Research Center, Webster, NY (May – Aug 2011).
Professional Services
- PC Co-chair: 4th ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data, 2022;
- Proceedings Co-Chair: 3rd ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data, 2021;
- Tutorial Track Co-Chair: 2nd ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data, 2020;
- Industry Track Co-Chair: 4th ACM IKDD Conference on Data Science, 2017;
- Demo & Exhibits Co-Chair: 9th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2017;
- Data Challenge Co-Chair: 3rd ACM IKDD Conference on Data Science, 2016;
- Proceedings Co-Chair: 2nd ACM IKDD Conference on Data Science, 2015
- Area Chair @ AAAI
- PC Member at multiple Vision/Language/AI conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, INLG, WACV.
Publications
News
Agentic Design Review System: Teaching AI to review graphic designs the way experts do
Our Agentic Design Review System (Agentic-DRS) is an experimental multi-agent framework from Adobe Research for holistic graphic design evaluation. Specialized AI agents assess typography, color harmony, alignment, spacing, composition, and more, coordinated by a meta-agent.
May 6, 2026With On-brand Recolor, Adobe Express users can give images a branded look with just one click
Discover how Adobe Researchers joined forces with the Adobe Express team to create On-brand Recolor—a new feature that uses AI and tailored algorithms to thoughtfully recolor graphics with your brand’s color palette in mind!
January 23, 2025Adobe Research Previews Experimental Technologies at Summit 2020
This year, Adobe shifted the annual Summit to an all-digital experience released on March 31. In the virtual Adobe Sneaks session, Steve Hammond, senior director for Experience Cloud, introduced 7 innovative demos. Two of those included sneaks were from Adobe Research. We showcased our cutting-edge
May 4, 2020Researcher Spotlight: Balaji Vasan Srinivasan
Senior research scientist Balaji Vasan Srinivasan was the first external hire at Adobe Research’s Bangalore lab in 2011. He focuses on enabling computers to generate content and create layouts using artificial intelligence. We asked him about his career path, his work training machines to write
April 27, 2018