Hi, my name is Siddharth. I was a PMRF PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, working on auditing human-facing AI platforms like Face Recognition Systems and e-commerce platforms to identify and mitigate biases against minority stakeholders, with Prof. Animesh Mukherjee.

In another lifetime, I was a Technical Project Lead at Huawei Technologies, India, working with the Cloud & AI team on Big Databases, focusing on query optimization and database connectors.

I completed my M.Tech(Research) degree from Dept of CDS, IISc, Bengaluru, India. During my time at IISc, I was associated with DREAM Lab, working 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.

I play football and volleyball and am a huge supporter of Manchester United FC. I like photography, reading books and writing poetry. Albert Camus, Ruskin Bond and Khaled Hosseini are some of the authors whose works I love.

Collaborators

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

News

Jan 2026: I have submitted my PhD thesis– “Auditing and Mitigating Biases in Face Recognition and Gender Analyzer Systems”. The last 5 years at IIT Kharagpur were extremely fulfilling. Excited for what comes next!
February 2024 [Pinned]: I am starting an Indian Machine Learning Reading Group with Kishalay Das that will be hosted online once a week. Hoping to promote Indian researchers’ work from top conferences/journals amongst the community. Do reach out if interested to present/attend!