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Education, experience, and selected work.

Contact Information

Name Aayush Sharma
Professional Title Machine Learning Researcher
Email aayushsharmajohn@gmail.com

Professional Summary

ML Researcher at Sarvam AI working on audio foundation models, voice-to-voice speech systems, and music generation. Background in Indic ASR/NER, voice-activity detection, and LLMs; interested in audio/speech foundation models and knowledge-enhanced ML.

Experience

  • 2023 - present

    India

    Machine Learning Researcher
    Sarvam AI
    Research on audio foundation models, voice-to-voice (speech) systems, and music generation.
    • Audio foundation models and speech representation learning
    • Voice-to-voice systems and music generation
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    India

    Founding Data Scientist
    Nurix
    • Built a Dialogue Manager for semantic voice-activity detection
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    India

    Associate Data Scientist
    ConvoZen.AI
    • Indic ASR and NER models
    • Co-developed the ConvoZen LLM
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    India

    NLP Intern
    Elucidata
    • Federated weak-learning framework
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    Remote / USA

    NLP Research Intern
    University of Utah
    • Knowledge-enhanced tabular reasoning research (Trans-KBLSTM)
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    India

    Data Science Project Trainee
    Envestnet | Yodlee
    • Applied data science projects

Education

  • 2019 - 2023

    Guwahati, India

    B.Tech
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati
    Biotechnology
    • Convener, Machine Learning Reading Workshop (MLRW) 2022
    • Member, IITG.ai and the Consulting & Analytics Club

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    Best Paper Award — DeeLIO Workshop @ ACL 2022 (Dublin)
    DeeLIO @ ACL 2022

    For “Trans-KBLSTM: An External Knowledge-enhanced Transformer BiLSTM for Tabular Reasoning.”

Skills

Research interests: Audio & speech foundation models, Voice-to-voice systems, Music generation, Diffusion / generative models, NLP & knowledge-enhanced ML