Harveen Singh Chadha - Age, Wiki and Bio

Bio/Wiki

Profession(s)	AI Researcher Author
Known For	Quitting Microsoft's AI team to join India's AI startup SarvamAI

Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black

Degree	Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
College/University	University College Of Engineering Punjabi University, Patiala

Wife	Chetan Deep Kaur

Mother	Kanwaljit Kaur Chadha (retired teacher)
Spouse	Chetan Deep Kaur

Overview	Harveen Singh Chadha has built a successful career in AI and data science, starting as a system engineer trainee at Infosys in Chandigarh.
Career Journey	He spent five years at Infosys, where he progressed to a Specialist Programmer role before leaving in July 2019. He then joined Wipro in Bengaluru as a Data Science Technologist in July 2019. In March 2020, Chadha became a Data Scientist at Thoughtworks, Gurugram. He achieved recognition in 2021 by winning the English ASR challenge at IIT Madras and ranking in the top 5 in the Interspeech Multilingual Low-Resource Language Competition. At Thoughtworks, he developed Vakyansh, a toolkit for speech recognition tailored to Indian languages. Chadha joined Microsoft in September 2022, where he focused on developing Hindi speech-to-text models and systems for English-to-Hindi translation, filing two patents and publishing two research papers during his tenure. In April 2025, he made a pivotal move to SarvamAI as a Large Language Model (LLM) researcher, departing from his role at Microsoft. At the India AI Impact Summit in February 2026, Sarvam AI showcased a voice-first model for 24 Indian languages, following which Harveen shared with his followers on X how his parents initially doubted his startup journey but eventually supported him.

Overview

Harveen Singh Chadha has built a successful career in AI and data science, starting as a system engineer trainee at Infosys in Chandigarh.

Career Journey

He spent five years at Infosys, where he progressed to a Specialist Programmer role before leaving in July 2019.
He then joined Wipro in Bengaluru as a Data Science Technologist in July 2019.
In March 2020, Chadha became a Data Scientist at Thoughtworks, Gurugram.
He achieved recognition in 2021 by winning the English ASR challenge at IIT Madras and ranking in the top 5 in the Interspeech Multilingual Low-Resource Language Competition.
At Thoughtworks, he developed Vakyansh, a toolkit for speech recognition tailored to Indian languages.
Chadha joined Microsoft in September 2022, where he focused on developing Hindi speech-to-text models and systems for English-to-Hindi translation, filing two patents and publishing two research papers during his tenure.
In April 2025, he made a pivotal move to SarvamAI as a Large Language Model (LLM) researcher, departing from his role at Microsoft.
At the India AI Impact Summit in February 2026, Sarvam AI showcased a voice-first model for 24 Indian languages, following which Harveen shared with his followers on X how his parents initially doubted his startup journey but eventually supported him.

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Harveen grew up in a well-educated family in Patiala, Punjab, with both parents being retired government officials.
He initially enrolled at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, to study AI but left after two years.
He began his professional career as a system engineer trainee at Infosys.
His expertise led him to win accolades in AI challenges, including a notable prize from IIT Madras.
Harveen has authored a book on Deep Learning and actively creates educational content on AI technologies.