Soumya Batra, co-author of Llama 3 and Llama 2, has 11 years of experience in Natural Language Processing. Her journey spans from her Master's at Carnegie Mellon to industry roles at Microsoft and Meta. Batra has worked across classical ML and large language models, focusing on conversational AI, multimodal AI, data efficiency, evaluation, and safety. Her drive comes from understanding the math behind these models and their behaviors. Batra has contributed to products like virtual assistants, Reality Labs, and the Llama models.

Soumya is currently an independent researcher, exploring sustainable and energy-efficient AI models in India. She is also an Advisor to an EdTech startup (stealth) and founder of Tech for Good-India Initiative, which builds tech products for societal improvements in India. She was recently listed as a H20 Top 100 AI thought leader, 2024. (https://h2o.ai/ai-100/winners/)