CV

Basics

Name Siddarth Asokan
Label Research Software Development Engineer
Email siddarth.asokan@microsoft.com
Url https://www.siddarthasokan.com

Work

  • 2025 (Aug) - Present
    Senior Researcher
    Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India
    Leading research in Generative modeling and Information Retrieval to build next-generation Large Retrieval Models.
    • Generative AI
    • Information Retrieval
    • Large Language Models
  • 2023 (Nov) - 2025 (Aug)
    Research Software Development Engineer (RSDE) II
    Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India
    Working at the intersection of Generative modeling and Information Retrieval to build Frontier Large Retrieval Models that power various Microsoft products.
    • Generative modeling
    • Information Retrieval
  • 2023 (Aug) - 2023 (Oct)
    Project Associate
    Spectrum Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
    Worked Unifying GANs, Diffusion Models, and Score-based generative modelling
    • GANs
    • Score-based Diffusion
    • Langevin Sampling

Education

  • 2017 - 2023

    Bengaluru, India

    Ph.D. + M.Tech. (Research)
    Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS), Indian Institue of Science (IISc)
    • Stochastic Models and Applications
    • Linear and Non-linear Optimization
    • Digital Image Processing
    • Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Machine Learning for Signal Processing
  • 2013 - 2017

    Bengaluru, India

    Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.)
    M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT)
    Electronics and Communication Engineering

Awards

  • 2024
    Prof. Satish Dhawan Research Award 2023
    2024 IEI Young Engineer's Award (Computer Science)
    Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and AI (IUPRAI) Doctoral Dissertation Award 2024
  • 2023
    Super Winner - Qualcomm Innovation Felowship
    Best Presenter – 14th IISc EECS Symposium – AI/ML Track
  • 2022
    Winner - Qualcomm Innovation Felowship
  • 2021
    Winner - Qualcomm Innovation Felowship
    Winner - Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBCCPS) Ph.D. Fellowship
  • 2020
    Finalist - Qualcomm Innovation Felowship
    Winner - Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBCCPS) Ph.D. Fellowship
  • 2019
    Winner - Qualcomm Innovation Felowship
  • 2018
    Microsoft Research (MSR) Ph.D. Fellowship
  • 2017
    Runners Up - Ideathon (IISc - MSRIT Symposium on Smart Cities)
    Runners Up (best project - MSRIT, Class of 2017)
    Gold Medal (Highest Cumulative GPA - MSRIT, Class of 2017)

Languages

Tamil
Native speaker
Kannada
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent

Interests

Photography
Gaming