Harsha Simhadri

Partner Researcher at Microsoft

Role
Partner Researcher at Microsoft
Location
Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Harsha Simhadri

I work on algorithmic research that enables extreme-scale practical systems. I enjoy…

Experience

  1. Partner Researcher

    Microsoft

    Sep 2016 — Present

    In 2018, we started the DiskANN project for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) to address the large gap between research and practice. It achieved many of its goals and has been adopted widely in Microsoft and rest of the industry. See link below for an overview of the project with references, I co-led the organization of the Big ANN challenge at NeurIPS\'21 and \'23 on large scale vector search and its variants.Currently in a Researcher/Tech Lead/Manager role.Previously, I contributed to the EdgeML project that designed new ML algorithms/models for IoT and resource-constrained edge devices (github.com/Microsoft/EdgeML).I enjoy mentoring research fellows/interns.

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

    B.Tech., Computer Science

    2003 — 2007

  • Carnegie Mellon University

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

    2007 — 2013

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