Sunayana Sitaram

Sunayana Sitaram is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. Her research goal is to make AI more inclusive to everyone on the planet. Her current area of research is on measuring and improving the performance of Large Language Models on non-English languages. Sunayana also serves as the director of the MSR India Research Fellow program, that currently houses around 65 Research Fellows and exposes bright young researchers to a world-class research environment to prepare them for careers in research, engineering and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining MSRI as a Post Doc Researcher, Sunayana completed her MS and PhD at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. Sunayana’s research has been published in top NLP and Speech conferences including ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, ICASSP and she regularly serves in the organizing committee of these conferences.