Siddharth D. Jaiswal

Hi, my name is Siddharth. I am a Responsible AI researcher, primarily interested in evaluating human-facing AI platforms that are deployed across geographies, cultures, and demographics. I intend to understand (1) how well these systems perform for such users, (2) if and where they go wrong, and (3) how we can address these concerns in an ecologically valid manner.

I completed my PhD from the Dept. of CSE, IIT Kharagpur. I was part of the CNeRG Lab, working on multiple aspects of Responsible AI, including auditing human-facing AI platforms such as Face Recognition Systems and e-commerce platforms to identify and mitigate biases against socially salient groups using low-resource, data-centric methods.

I completed my M.Tech(Research) degree from Dept of CDS, IISc Bengaluru, India. During my time at IISc, I was part of the DREAM Lab, where I worked on distributed graph algorithms. I also received the Microsoft Data Science Fellowship for the duration of my degree.

I completed my B.Tech in Computer Science and Engg in 2016 from Tezpur Central University, Tezpur, Assam, India.

Collaborators

Prof. Animesh Mukherjee (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Prof. Saptarshi Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Prof. Sandipan Sikdar (L3S Research Centre, LUH, Germany)
Dr. Sunayana Sitaram (Microsoft Research India)
Dr. Mohit Jain (Microsoft Research India)
Dr. Abhisek Dash (MPI-SWS, Germany)
Mr. Anand Rai (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Mr. Sagnik Basu (IIT Kharagpur, India)

news

Sep 01, 2026	Ended my tenure as a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research India. Had a great time working on multiple projects. Check the publications page for preprints!
Jun 27, 2026	I successfully defended my PhD thesis, “Auditing and Mitigating Biases in Face Recognition and Gender Analyzer Systems”, from the Dept. of CSE, IIT Kharagpur. Excited for what’s next!
Feb 01, 2024	I am starting an Indian Machine Learning Reading Group with Kishalay Das, hosted online once a week, to promote Indian researchers’ work from top conferences and journals. Do reach out if interested in presenting or attending!

selected publications

Playing Games with My Heart: An Evaluation of AI Companion Apps

Maribeth Rauh, Dick AH Blankvoort, Matias Duran, Caoilfhionn Nı́ Dheoráin, Harshvardhan J Pandit, Syrine Enneifer, Siddharth D Jaiswal, and 2 more authors

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08093, 2026

arXiv Bib

@article{rauh2026playing,
  title = {Playing Games with My Heart: An Evaluation of AI Companion Apps},
  author = {Rauh, Maribeth and Blankvoort, Dick AH and Duran, Matias and Dheor{\'a}in, Caoilfhionn N{\'\i} and Pandit, Harshvardhan J and Enneifer, Syrine and Jaiswal, Siddharth D and Ventresque, Anthony and Birhane, Abeba},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08093},
  year = {2026},
}

Evaluating Ambient Clinical Scribes in India: The Need for Multilingual Real-World Clinical Conversation Data

Siddharth D Jaiswal, Krithi Shailya, Ashish Makani, Suvrankar Datta, Sunayana Sitaram, and Mohit Jain

arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.17355, 2026

arXiv Bib

@article{jaiswal2026evaluating,
  title = {Evaluating Ambient Clinical Scribes in India: The Need for Multilingual Real-World Clinical Conversation Data},
  author = {Jaiswal, Siddharth D and Shailya, Krithi and Makani, Ashish and Datta, Suvrankar and Sitaram, Sunayana and Jain, Mohit},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.17355},
  year = {2026},
}