Shikhar

Hey! I'm a Research Fellow at MSR India, where I'm a part of the Extreme Classification team led by Manik Varma. Here I work alongside the Bing Ads team at Microsoft Redmond on leveraging additional metadata to improve search and recommendation systems.

Before coming to MSR India, I was an undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur, where I worked with Prof. Saumik Bhattacharya. I graduated in 2022 with a major in Electronics Engineering and a minor in Computer Science Engineering.

In the past, I've worked at several startups such as Drishti (Video Analytics), Skit.ai (Voice AI) and prior to that, I was a Summer@EPFL fellow in 2021, where I worked in the MLO Laboratory under Prof. Martin Jaggi on Self Supervised Learning.

I'm interested in multimodal learning and transference for visual reasoning, generation and recognition, extending to 3D scenes as well. I am currently awaiting PhD decisions, wish me luck!