Summary
Badri Patro is a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft with nine years of research and industry experience bridging efficient transformers, multimodal models, and responsible AI. He holds a Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur and has held postdoctoral roles at Google, KU Leuven and IIIT Hyderabad, contributing to visual question answering, multilingual translation and multimodal vision–speech systems. At Microsoft he focuses on scaling and explaining large language and vision models while addressing fairness, privacy and robustness trade-offs. His background spans both deep research and product-facing engineering—from audio/DSP and multimedia engineering at Samsung and Harman to power electronics early in his career—giving him a practical systems perspective on ML research. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluently between theory and implementation, often optimizing model efficiency for real-world deployment.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Tele-Communication, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Tele-Communication at National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Berhampur