Spandana Gella is a Research Scientist and the Research Manager of the Multimodal Foundational Models Program. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Edinburgh, UK, where she was supervised by Prof. Mirella Lapata and Prof. Frank Keller. Prior to joining ServiceNow she worked at Amazon AI and Alexa AI for 6 years and interned at Meta AI Research and Microsoft Research. Her research focuses on building robust and safe multimodal foundation models. Her research has been published at various NLP/ML conferences and she is an active member of the academic community and organized workshops, shared tasks and served as area chair and has been a part of the program committees at NLP/ML conferences.