Shalini De Mello is a Principal Research Scientist and Research Lead in the Learning and Perception Research group at NVIDIA, which she joined in 2013. Her research interests are in human-centric vision (face and gaze analysis) and in data-efficient (synth2real, low-shot, self-supervised and multimodal) machine learning. She has co-authored 53 peer-reviewed publications and holds 39 patents. Her inventions have contributed to several NVIDIA products, including DriveIX and Maxine. Previously, she has worked at Texas Instruments and AT&T Laboratories. She received her Doctoral degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.