Summary
Shivam Sharma is a postdoctoral researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, NLP, and multimodal applications, currently based at Aalto University after a stint at TU Darmstadt and the UKP Lab. He holds a PhD from IIT Delhi on harmful memes, blending computational social science with NLP to tackle real-world misinformation and content harm. Shivam has transitioned between industry and academia—leading research efforts at Wipro and contributing as a researcher at Idiap—bringing a pragmatic mindset to publishing and production ML systems. His background spans speech signal processing to multimodal deep learning, giving him rare breadth across text, audio, and vision modalities. Known for translating rigorous research into deployable solutions, he often focuses on socially impactful problems that sit at the nexus of language, perception, and society.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Engineering at UPES
12th certificate PCM, 12th certificate PCM at Modi Public School, KOTA (Raj.)
MS by Research (CSE) Speech Signal Processing and Machine Learning, MS by Research (CSE) Speech Signal Processing and Machine Learning at Indian Institute of Information Technology, SriCity
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
10th Certificate PCM, 10th Certificate PCM at All Saints Convent School, New Tehri