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Research
as a Service.

Industry’s hardest questions.
Academic rigor.

Your domain expertise meets our research team. Together, we develop original methods and submit the findings for peer review.

ONE PROBLEM. ONE JOINT MANUSCRIPT.

Research co-authored by contributors from both organizations, submitted to a jointly selected peer-reviewed venue.

RESEARCH IN MOTION
FIG. 01 A hard question. A new connection.

AI research with leading enterprises

Mercedes-BenzBoschEmbitel, a Volkswagen Group companyAramcoRenesasVolkswagenCARIAD

Your domain.
Our research capacity.

For large companies moving into a new field, and startups whose technical depth is not yet visible from the outside. You set the direction. We conduct the research with you.

01 / YOU BRING

The problem and its context.

Problem domain, application context, available data, and technical review at agreed checkpoints.

DIRECTION + DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE
02 / WE DELIVER

The work behind the findings.

Literature review, method design, experimentation, manuscript preparation, and reviewer response.

RESEARCH + EXECUTION
03 / THE OUTPUT

One joint manuscript.

Submitted to a jointly selected conference, co-authored by contributors from both organizations.

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD

From problem
to submission.

A typical engagement runs three to four months from problem definition to submission, dependent on target conference deadlines.

  1. 01

    Problem definition

    You specify the research domain and target application.

  2. 02

    Scoping

    Both teams agree a defined research question and evaluation criteria.

  3. 03

    Execution

    Method development, experimentation, and manuscript preparation.

  4. 04

    Submission

    Manuscript submitted to the jointly selected venue.

  5. 05

    Review response

    Rebuttal preparation and response to reviewer comments.

AFTER PEER REVIEW

The research continues.

On acceptance

The manuscript is published with both organizations listed as co-authors on the byline.

On rejection

Reviewer feedback is incorporated and the manuscript is resubmitted to the next appropriate venue within the same engagement.

ATTRIBUTION

Authorship follows
contribution.

The people who did the work are the authors. Contributors from your team who shape the problem, the data, or the experiments are named on the manuscript. A fee alone never places anyone on a byline.

Author order follows contribution and is agreed in writing before submission, with both affiliations on the record.

Fast Code AI’s name appears on every paper too.
Our reputation rides on each one.

The rules we don’t bend.

01

Disclosure

The collaboration and its funding are disclosed in the paper, following the venue’s conflict-of-interest and funding-statement requirements. Nothing is hidden from reviewers or readers.

02

Earned authorship

Bylines are earned by contribution, never purchased. Client contributors are authors only when they did author-level work.

03

Peer review is the bar

We report results as the experiments produce them, negative findings included. The venue’s review process is untouched. There is no acceptance guarantee.

From our
research team.

Original methods, benchmarks, and investigations. Published work alongside research in review and preparation.

[ 01 ]In review

Time-series foundation models

TS-Nudge: Training-free Retrieval Augmentation for Time Series Foundation Models

CONCEPT SKETCH
AAAI 2027
[ 02 ]In preparation

Numerical reasoning

Understanding Generalized Number Representations for Multi-Token Numerical Outputs

12.5CONCEPT SKETCH
ICLR 2027
[ 03 ]In review

Multi-agent systems

When Five Agents Behave Like One: Measuring Effective Committee Size in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

CONCEPT SKETCH
ACL 2027
[ 04 ]In review

Causal reasoning · Autonomous driving

CausalDriveBench: Evaluating Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving

01 / Causal reasoningConcept sketch
SSceneAActionYOutcomeInterventiondo(A = a)
From scene understanding to cause and effect.
In collaboration withRenesas
[ 05 ]Published

Depth-guided diffusion

Odo: Depth-Guided Diffusion for Identity-Preserving Body Reshaping

CONCEPT SKETCH
[ 06 ]Published

Video understanding

Skew-robust Human-Object Interactions in Videos

CONCEPT SKETCH
WACV 2023
[ 07 ]Published

Monocular 3D reconstruction

Gravity-aware Monocular 3D Human-Object Reconstruction

CONCEPT SKETCH
ICCV 2021
[ 08 ]Published

Pose estimation · Automated driving

VRU Pose-SSD: Multiperson Pose Estimation for Automated Driving

CONCEPT SKETCH
AAAI 2021
[ 09 ]Published

Semi-supervised learning · 3D pose

Multiview-consistent Semi-supervised Learning for 3D Human Pose Estimation

CONCEPT SKETCH
CVPR 2020

A defined scope.
A clear starting point.

One problem statement, one manuscript, three to four months to submission.

ENGAGEMENTS START AT$100k

Final pricing depends on the research scope and is agreed before work begins.

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Included in the engagement

  • Research scoping and problem formulation
  • Method development and experimentation
  • Manuscript preparation
  • Submission to the agreed venue
  • Rebuttal and reviewer response
  • Revision and resubmission following rejection
ON PEER REVIEW

No acceptance guarantee.

Peer review outcomes cannot be guaranteed by either party. The engagement commits to the research and publication process through to a decision. Following rejection, reviewer feedback is incorporated and the manuscript is resubmitted to the next appropriate venue within the same engagement.

Different paths.
Different commitments.

Build an in-house team, partner with a university lab, or collaborate with a research group like ours.

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What mattersHire researchers
in-house
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university lab
FAST CODE AIResearch
collaboration
Research directionClient-definedShared with the institutionClient-defined
Cost structureRecruitment, salary, and retention of ongoing headcountGrant funding and institutional overheadFixed fee, agreed before work begins
Time to first submissionRecruitment and ramp-up precede any outputSet by academic cycles and lab capacityThree to four months from engagement start
Response to rejectionAbsorbed internallySubject to institutional prioritiesRevision and resubmission included in scope
AttributionInternal onlyShared with the institutionBoth organizations named on the byline
07 / VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITYRESEARCH PEERS & COLLABORATORS

Voices from
the community.

From people who have worked alongside Arjun and the team.

Chris (Christoph) Bregler
01 / COMMUNITY VOICE
IN THEIR WORDSGoogle

Arjun was one of the pioneers

Arjun is a great researcher / scientist / and entrepreneur. I first learned about his research at MPI on his movie-reshape work that made a big splash in the community, and subsequently I managed to recruit him to come to NYU as a post doc in our lab, where he kept pushing state of the art research in 3D people estimation with conv nets. This was during a time where conv nets made the next leap, and Arjun was one of the pioneers working in my lab to tackle people tracking with conv nets. He also collaborated with Yann Lecun's lab, as well as kept collaborating internationally with other leading research teams. It was a joy to work with him, he was a very productive and strong researcher!

Chris (Christoph) Bregler

Director / Principal Scientist
Google

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