Badri Patro
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolBadri 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.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology KanpurIndian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Tele-Communication, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Tele-Communication at NIST UniversityBachelor of Technology Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Technology Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at National Institute of Science & Technology
Stackoverflow
21reputation
5kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (42)
quora10
discriminator10
rouge10
anaconda10
visual-question-answering10
bleu10
natural-language-generation9
acl9
question-answering9
activation8
natural-language-processing8
sentence-embeddings7
gtts7
deep-learning7
dropout7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
badripatro/DVQA
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:68 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
badripatro/badripatro.github.io
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:102 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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