Harsh is a recent computer science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and is headed to pursue MS in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. His academic journey has included research internships with TU Darmstadt under Prof. Devendra Singh Dhami and a software engineering role at Optiver, a top quantitative finance firm. His bachelor’s thesis focuses on building invariant representations for speech to better support underrepresented accents. Post his Masters, he aspires to work in industry before founding or leading a research lab in India focusing on impactful AI systems. Outside academics, he enjoys sports like cricket, football, and basketball, as well as sketching and writing.