Mitesh M Khapra

Head of AI4Bharat Research Lab at IIT

Pabitra Moharana·Published 2025-12-24T10:48:23.275+05:30Updated 2025-12-24T10:48:23.275+05:30

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Lead AI4Bharat research lab at IIT Madras, specializing in AI and machine learning.
Previously researched at IBM India, focusing on translation and deep learning technologies.
Published work in top AI conferences and served as area chair for prestigious events.
Earned PhD and MTech from IIT Bombay, receiving numerous academic accolades.
Honored with awards including Google Faculty Research Award and Microsoft Rising Star Award.

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The head of the much-loved AI4Bharat research lab, Mitesh M Khapra is an associate professor at IIT Madras in the department of computer science and engineering. Earlier, he was a researcher at IBM Research India, working on statistical machine translation, cross-language learning, and deep learning.

His research has been featured in top conferences like ACL, NeurIPS, and AAAI, and he has served as the area chair for major conferences such as ICLR and AAAI.

He completed his PhD and MTech from IIT Bombay, receiving several accolades, including the IBM PhD Fellowship and Microsoft Rising Star Award. His honours include the Google Faculty Research Award (2018) and multiple IITM awards for research and teaching excellence.