‘Contextual bandit’ breakthrough enables deeper personalization
News portals that simultaneously personalize every part of the landing page for every visitor and mobile health apps that adaptively tweak every part of an exercise regimen to…
Adith Swaminathan
Principal Researcher
Getting efficient with “What-happens-if …”
Causal inference studies the relationship between causes and effects. For example, one kind of question that causal inference can answer is the “What-happens-if …” question. What happens if…
edX course on Reinforcement Learning
In this course, you will be introduced to the world of reinforcement learning. You will learn how to frame reinforcement learning problems and start tackling classic examples like…
Inside the Microsoft AI Residency Program with Dr. Brian Broll
Episode 89, September 11, 2019 – In 2018, Microsoft launched the Microsoft AI Residency Program, a year-long, expanded research experience designed to give recent graduates in a variety…
About
I am a principal researcher in the Augmented Learning and Reasoning Group (opens in new tab) at Microsoft Research @ Redmond (opens in new tab).
I study principles and algorithms that can improve human-centered systems using machine learning and counterfactual reasoning.
I spent the 2015-16 academic year visiting the Information and Language Processing Systems (opens in new tab) group at the University of Amsterdam (opens in new tab), interned with the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research NYC (opens in new tab) during the summer of 2015, Computer Human Interactive Learning group at Microsoft Research Redmond (opens in new tab) during the summer of 2013, Search Labs at Microsoft Research (opens in new tab) during the summer of 2012, and worked as a strategist with Tower Research Capital (opens in new tab) before going to graduate school.
Blog Posts
AI for AI: Metareasoning for modular computing systems
A new document in a word processor can be a magical thing, a blank page onto which thoughts and ideas are put forth as quickly as we can input text...
ICML 2020 highlights: A Transformer-based RL agent, causal ML for increased privacy, and more
With over 50 papers from Microsoft accepted at this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), a number of which were presented in virtual workshops, Microsoft researchers are in full summer swing when it comes to advancing machine learning…