Introduction to Adobe Research and EPIC

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Adobe Research is a team of world-class research scientists, engineers, artists, and designers uniting cutting-edge academic discovery with real-world industry impact. This balance drives our groundbreaking work, as we transform experimental ideas into innovative technologies for Adobe’s products and strengthen the company’s reputation as a pioneer in content and data intelligence. Many of Adobe Research’s early-stage technologies go on to become key elements of Adobe’s products, ultimately reaching and empowering millions of users across the globe.

In this talk, we'll provide an overview of Adobe's journey to transform the world through digital experiences, and how generative AI is reshaping both our business and Adobe Research's mission to imagine and invent the future. We'll highlight our work across foundational models, product features and workflows, APIs and third-party systems, and data analytics. We'll then focus on the agent and assistant initiatives within our EPIC organization (Experiences, Platform, Insights, and Content) in Adobe Research, showcasing key research efforts, their impact on products and business outcomes, and our academic collaborations.

Speaker

Vishy Swaminathan

Speaker Bio

Vishy (Viswanathan) Swaminathan is a Sr. Principal Scientist and a research org head within Adobe Research . He currently works on Agentic AI experiences for end users, creators, and marketers at the intersection of multimodal content, documents, and behavioral data. His research org, EPIC (Experiences, Platforms, Insights, and Content) focuses on Agentic AI research for Adobe's Experience, Document, and Creative Clouds. Research from Vishy's organization powers several flagship innovations, including the award-winning Acrobat AI Assistant, Adobe Experience Platform AI Assistant, and the newly announced Adobe Express, Creative Assistants, and the Agent Orchestrator. Vishy's research contributions have significantly shaped Adobe's video monetization technologies (delivery, rights management, advertising, recommendation), campaigns, and recommendation technologies. Earlier his work on HTTP Dynamic Streaming which won the 'Best Streaming Innovation of 2011′ Streaming Media Readers' Choice Award. Vishy has received several honors, including best paper awards, 2017 Distinguished alumnus from Utah State University ECE Department, and 3 ISO certificates of appreciation for outstanding contributions to MPEG Standards - most notably as editor of the Emmy-winning MPEG-DASH standard. Prior to Adobe, Vishy was a Senior Researcher at Sun Labs. He holds an MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University and a B.E. in ECE from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India. Vishy has authored numerous papers, articles, RFCs, and book chapters, holds over 100 issued patents, and actively volunteers in organizing IEEE and ACM conferences.