About

Aditya Agarwal is a highly motivated and accomplished computer vision and robotics researcher with a passion for education, skilling, and healthcare. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Visual Information Technology, where he is working on building a multilingual acoustic model that uses 1D convolutional layers to validate the compatibility of multiple languages in building a complex Speech Recognition System. He has trained and validated the performance of the model on three Indic languages, namely - Tamil, Telugu, and Gujarati, and reported training and inference time improvements of up to 4x and 7.4x, respectively, with similar WERs against sequence-based standard baseline models. Previously, Aditya worked as a Data Scientist in Microsoft's Search Technology Centre India, where he was part of the team that developed the People Also Ask (Related QnA) experience on Bing's search page. He worked on techniques like universalization and fresh PAA to expand their presence to more than 100+ languages and 200+ markets. Aditya also worked in Microsoft's Azure Global Engineering division on two projects - Azure for Health and Microsoft Community Learning. In the former, he developed a federated healthcare pipeline for a conglomeration of top healthcare institutions in India and the US, allowing healthcare data to be stored securely on the Cloud in a queryable format. In the latter, he worked on several key engineering features to scale the product from a few thousand to its first million users, and the platform currently has more than 10+ million users. Aditya holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from PES University and is currently pursuing a Master's by Research in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad. He is a research student at IIIT Hyderabad and was advised by Professor Anil Kumar Vuppala of the Speech Processing Lab. Aditya has relevant experience of 3.36 years and has a strong tech stack, including Research Scientist, Computer Vision, Search, Azure, ML, Data Scientist, Python, and Java. His motto has always been to challenge existing beliefs, do what's impossible, and not follow the crowd. Aditya is a firm believer in "Change is the only constant entity!"