Sunayana Sitaram

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 4 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in multilingual NLP and AI inclusivity.
  • Director of MSR India Research Fellow program.
  • Strong interdisciplinary collaboration with diverse teams.
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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingSpeech Processing

Other Skills

PythonMachine LearningMultilingual NLPShell ScriptingComputer ScienceHuman-computer InteractionComputational LinguisticsSpeech RecognitionText AnalyticsText ClassificationParallel ComputingNeural Networks

About

Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/susitara/ See FAQs below before sending a message. My research goal is to make AI more inclusive by improving the accuracy and safety of LLMs on non-English languages. I'm excited about translating long term and cutting-edge research on data, modeling and evaluation into large-scale real-world product improvements so that AI can benefit everyone on the planet. I thrive in leading and working with diverse, interdisciplinary teams and regularly work with social scientists, linguists, designers and product groups. I was Director of the MSR India Research Fellow program from 2022-2024. The RF program is a unique opportunity for students who are considering pursing a career in research and exposes bright young minds to cutting-edge research and provides mentorship from some of the top researchers in the world. I have organized several special sessions and given many invited talks in academia and industry. My publication list can be found on my Google Scholar page. Due to the volume of email/LinkedIn messages I get, I am unable to respond to all of them. Please see below for FAQs. Internships at MSRI: The best way to apply for an internship at MSRI is through the job portal and sending an email with your CV to a researcher in the lab whose area of research most closely matches with yours. You can find out who works in your area of interest by going through the MSR India website. If you have interest and prior experience in multilingual NLP and are interested in working with me, please send me an email with your CV (prior experience required). Please note that internships are only open to current students or very recent grads. RF at MSRI: The RF position opens once a year and has a centralized hiring process. Please visit the MSRI website for more info. I do not currently have any open slots for RF positions in my group. Referral policy: I get several requests for referring people to various jobs at Microsoft. Due to this, I am unable to provide referrals unless I know you personally or have worked with you in the past. Thank you for understanding! Reference policy: I have been getting numerous requests for adding my name as a reference in the MSRI internship application. References should come from people who have worked with a candidate in the past and who know the candidate well and can vouch for their work. They do not have to be from researchers in MSRI. I hope this clears up any confusion, as I will be unable to provide references unless I have worked with you in the past.

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft research

4 roles

Principal Researcher

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Senior Researcher, Director Research Fellow program at MSR India

Promoted

Nov 2019Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Senior Applied Scientist

Jan 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

Post Doctoral Researcher

Jan 2016Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

  • At Microsoft Research India, I work on Speech Processing for Multilingual Communities, specifically on speech processing of code-mixed languages. I am part of Project Melange, and I also manage the Project Melange blog, Poco Mix Maadi. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/melange/ https://pocomixmaadi.wordpress.com/
Speech ProcessingMultilingual NLPNatural Language Processing

Microsoft

Principal Researcher

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • I am back to MSR after a successful rotation in the Writing Assistance and Language Intelligence product group within Office.
Natural Language ProcessingPythonMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence

Acm, association for computing machinery

Associate Editor

Aug 2020Jul 2021 · 11 mos

  • AE for ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) https://dl.acm.org/journal/tallip

Language technologies institute, cmu

Graduate Research Assistant

Sep 2012Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Region

  • My PhD thesis was on Pronunciation Modeling for Synthesis of Low Resource Languages. I worked on improving the front ends of Text to Speech systems for various languages such as dialects of Arabic, Indian languages and endangered languages.

Microsoft research

Intern

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on Automatic Speech Recognition for low-resource languages.

Language technologies institute, cmu

Graduate Research Assistant

Sep 2010May 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • For my Master's, I worked on Project LISTEN and my advisor was Prof. Jack Mostow.
  • My work focused on automatically assessing and visualizing children's oral reading prosody.

Voxta communications

2 roles

Speech Technologies Engineer

Aug 2009Aug 2010 · 1 yr

  • Hyderabad-based startup, I mainly worked on TTS systems.

Intern

May 2009Jul 2009 · 2 mos

  • Implemented Text-to-Speech systems for Indian languages.

Da-iict speech group

Trainee

Jan 2008Mar 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • I worked on Speaker Recognition and Language Identification with the DA-IICT Speech Group, under the guidance of Prof. Hemant Patil.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) — Language Technologies

Jan 2012Jan 2015

Carnegie Mellon University

MS — Language Technologies

Jan 2010Jan 2012

National Institute of Technology Surat

B.Tech. — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Udgam

High School

Jan 2002Jan 2005

Mount Carmel, Ahmedabad

Primary

Jan 1991Jan 2002

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