Siddarth Asokan

About

Siddarth Asokan is currently a Research Software Development Engineer (RSDE II) at the Microsoft Research Lab (MSRI) in Bangalore, India, and is working as part of Dr. Manik Varma’s (opens in new tab) group, exploring the world of generative models in the context of eXtreme Classification (opens in new tab). Prior to joining Microsoft, he was an interdisciplinary Ph.D. scholar at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems(RBCCPS) (opens in new tab) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) (opens in new tab), Bangalore, graduating in 2023, and earning a Masters by Research degree along the way. During his Ph.D., he worked at the Spectrum Lab (opens in new tab) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IISc, under the supervision of Dr. Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (opens in new tab). Prior to that, he obtained a Bachelors in Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communications in 2017 from the M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology(MSRIT) (opens in new tab), Bangalore.

Siddarth has been the recipient of several Awards and Fellowships during his Ph.D., receiving the Microsoft Research Fellowship in 2018, the RBCCPS Ph.D. Fellowship in 2020 and 2021, and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023!

His research interests are broadly in the area of signal processing, machine learning and generative modeling, with a focus, during his Ph.D., on generative adversarial networks (GANs). His Ph.D. was on building theoretical foundations for analyzing GANs, leveraging insights from classical image processing, variational Calculus and Fourier theory, and designing network architectures motivated by those findings. Click here (opens in new tab) to know more.