Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran

Senior Director/Commerce Platform AI Research Leader, ACM Eminent Speaker India 2025

Role
Machine Learning Research Leader at Microsoft
Location
Bengaluru, KA, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran

Extensive AI/ML/Data science and platform engineering experience. PhD from IITM and 20…

Experience

  1. Machine Learning Research Leader

    Microsoft

    Dec 2021 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN

    Head of the Cloud-AI R&D plus AI/ML for commerce platform team in C+E.Work on deeper problems in commerce AI - forecasting, anomaly detection, recommendation etc. Innovations like the following being productized for internal and external customers.SpectFormer (WACV 2025) – a new spectral transformer, with initial layers being Fourier transforms and deeper attention layers. Reduces number of parameters in vision transformers significantly without sacrificing accuracy.Scattering VIsion Transformer (NeurIPS 2023) – a variant of SpectFormer with initial layers being dual-tree complex wavelet transforms. Achieves accuracy (84%) comparable to Google’s vision transformer (which needs 22 billion parameters to get 86% accuracy) with only 100 million parameters.SiMBA (ICASSP 2025) – hybrid transformer state-space model that achieves state-of-art SMAPE/MAE/MSE on seven open source data sets as well as cloud cost management data of Msft

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

    PhD, Distributed Systems

    2002 — 2007

  • University of Madras

    Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science

    1994 — 1998

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

    MS (By Research), Distributed Computing

    1998 — 2000

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