Harveen Singh Chadha Age, Wife, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	• AI Researcher • Author
Known For	Quitting Microsoft's AI team to join India's AI startup SarvamAI
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Career
Personal Life
Date of Birth	20 August 1991 (Tuesday)
Age (as of 2025)	34 Years
Birthplace	Patiala, Punjab, India
Zodiac sign	Leo
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Patiala, Punjab
College/University	University College Of Engineering Punjabi University, Patiala
Educational Qualification	A bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
Religion	Sikhism
Social Media	• Instagram • YouTube • Twitter • LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Marriage Date	April, 2024
Family
Wife/Spouse	Chetan Deep Kaur
Parents	Father Mother- Kanwaljit Kaur Chadha (retired teacher)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Harveen Singh Chadha

• Harveen Singh Chadha was born and raised in Patiala, Punjab.

• He belongs to a well-educated family, where both his parents are retired government officials.

• After high school, Harveen joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, to study Artificial Intelligence; however, he dropped out in his second year.

• Later in 2010, he joined the University College of Engineering, Punjabi University, and pursued a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering.

• After completing his engineering degree, he started his professional career at Infosys, Chandigarh, as a system engineer trainee. He has worked there for 5 years. He left Infosys in July 2019 as a Specialist Programmer.
  

  Harveen Singh Chadha, when he joined Infosys, Chandigarh

• In July 2019, Chadha moved to Bengaluru and joined Wipro as a Data Science Technologist.

• In March 2020, Harveen joined Thoughtworks, Gurugram, as a Data Scientist.

• In 2021, he won the English ASR challenge by IIT Madras and placed in the top 5 in the Interspeech Multilingual Low-Resource Language Competition.

• In March 2022, while working at ThoughtWorks, he developed Vakyansh, a speech recognition toolkit. The project focused on building speech-to-text systems for Indian languages.

• In September 2022, Harveen Singh Chadha joined Microsoft in Bengaluru, where he worked on building Hindi speech-to-text (ASR) models and English-to-Hindi speech translation systems. He contributed to both hybrid and end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition systems, developed benchmarks, evaluation tools, and demos, and during his time there, he filed two patents and published two research papers.

• In April 2025, Harveen left with a stable job at Microsoft and joined two years old an Indian AI startup, SarvamAI, as a Large Language Model (LLM) researcher.

• In February 2026, at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, Sarvam AI unveiled a voice-first model for 24 Indian languages. After the summit, Chadha’s tweet went viral, in which he shared that his parents were initially doubtful about his decision to leave Microsoft and join a startup. On X, he wrote,

10 months back parents were not happy when I left MS. Today when I reached, they were smiling. Dad showed me all the news channel recordings, newspapers mentions of Sarvam. Mom told me how she promoted Sarvam in WhatsApp groups and to neighbours. Overall, a very small win but a long way to go.”

https://twitter.com/HarveenChadha/status/2025260039695728869

• With over a decade of experience as a data scientist and in AI, Harveen has become passionate about sharing his knowledge and has created courses for Packt and O’Reilly. He is also a course reviewer at Coursera, Udacity, Manning, and Upgrad.

• Harveen Singh Chadha is also an author of a book on Deep Learning and has been involved in educational content related to TensorFlow and Keras.

• On his X account, Chadha frequently shares insights on AI development, testing LLMs, and commentary on tech and models.