Siddharth Verma

Siddharth Verma is a machine learning professional currently working as a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, focusing on character work in LLM pretraining.1 His career highlights include:

1. Undergraduate Researcher at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) from February 2019 to May 2021, where he worked on chatbots, robotics, and self-driving cars.1
2. AI Resident at Facebook AI from August 2021 to September 2022.1
3. Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Square, working on chatbots.1

During his time at BAIR, Siddharth:

• Conducted research in Deep Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent RL, and Offline RL.1
• Published a first-author paper in NeurIPS.1

Siddharth's educational background includes:

• Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Music from the University of California, Berkeley (2017-2021).1
• Graduated with a 4.0 GPA in Computer Science and was part of the EECS Honors Program.1

He has also received several honors and awards, including:

• Membership in Upsilon Pi Epsilon, a Computer Science Honor Society.1
• Dean's List recognition in 2018 and 2019.1
• National Merit Scholarship Finalist in 2017.1

Siddharth is multilingual, with proficiency in English, Hindi, Chinese, and elementary Spanish.1