Dhruv Batra is a co-founder and the Chief Scientist of Yutori, and an adjunct professor at Georgia Tech. 

Previously, he was a Senior Director at Meta leading FAIR Embodied AI, and an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. 

He received the 2019 Presidential early career award for scientists and engineers (PECASE) from the White House for his work on explainable AI and neural network interpretability. 
He and his collaborators received the 2025 Mark Everingham Prize for their 2015 work on Visual Question Answering established "a new strand of vision and language research.”
He is a recipient of best paper awards/nominations in every area of AI (vision, NLP, ML, robotics). 

He is also a recipient of the Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the US Army (ECASE-Army) (2018), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award (2017), the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (2014), Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award (2014), Outstanding Junior Faculty awards from Georgia Tech (2018) and Virginia Tech (2015), multiple research awards from industry (Google, Amazon, Facebook), and several teaching commendations. 
At Georgia Tech, his research was supported by NSF, ARO, ARL, ONR, DARPA, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. 
His research has been extensively covered in the media (with varying levels of accuracy) at CNN, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg Business, The Boston Globe, MIT Technology Review, Newsweek, The Verge, New Scientist, and NPR. 

Webpage: http://dhruvbatra.com/