Siddhartha Sen
Principal Researcher
News & features
In the news | Microsoft India Paradigm Shift Podcast
Paradigm Shift, Episode 3: Pitches and Pawns
From analyzing every cricketing shot in the book, to infusing intelligence on the chessboard, to reimagining how fans engage with the players and the game–AI is shaping the next best move in sports.
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Maia, a human-oriented AI for chess
A neural network engine that captures human decisions and playing style in chess.
In the news | TWIML
The Future of Human-Machine Interaction with Dan Bohus and Siddhartha Sen
Today we continue our AI in Innovation series joined by Dan Bohus, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and Siddhartha Sen, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research.
In the news | Lichess Blog
Introducing Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
We're happy to announce Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine that was 100% trained on Lichess games. Maia is an engine built in the style of Leela that learns from human games instead of self-play games, with the goal…
The human side of AI for chess
| Reid McIlroy-Young, Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg, and Siddhartha Sen
Editor’s note: The section “Modeling individual players’ styles with Maia” has been updated as of July 12, 2021. As artificial intelligence continues its rapid progress, equaling or surpassing human performance on benchmarks in an increasing range of tasks, researchers in…