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Sourav Bhattacharya

AI Researcher & Technology Leader

Cambridge, UK

12+ Years Experience (Post PhD)
90+ Publications
5,600+ Citations
h-27 h-index

AI researcher and technology leader with a track record of turning fundamental research into products used by millions. Currently GenAI Research Director at NatWest Group, building the Chief AI Research Office and leading work on Conversational AI for banking — spanning text, audio, and embodied intelligence. Previously Director of Research and Head of On-Device AI at Samsung AI Center, Cambridge, shipping generative AI, ASR, and audio intelligence features across the Samsung Galaxy smartphone lineup.

Sourav Bhattacharya

Skills & Technologies

Research domains, frameworks, and tools I work with.

Research

AI / ML

LLMsFine-tuningRL OptimisationOn-Device AIAgentic AI

Domain

Audio & Speech

ASRTTSSpeech EnhancementAudio Intelligence

Domain

Embedded ML

Model CompressionPruningQuantisationLow-latency Inference

Programming

Languages

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowC/C++Matlab

Systems

Infrastructure

Distributed SystemsIoT PlatformsMobile SystemsWearables

Leadership

Management

Research StrategyTeam BuildingCross-cultural TeamsIndustry Partnerships

Work Experience

Over 12 years leading AI research and deploying products to millions of users.

Oct 2025 – PresentCurrent

NatWest Group

Edinburgh / London / Cambridge, UK

Generative AI Research Director Oct 2025 – Present
  • Founding member of the Chief AI Research Office at NatWest Group, setting the research agenda for Conversational AI in banking — covering text, audio, and embodied intelligence.
  • Manage a large team of researchers and engineers working on LLMs, fine-tuning via supervised and reinforcement learning, RL optimisation, Evaluation and low-latency inference.
  • Drive the long-term GenAI strategy end-to-end: from research roadmap through to production deployment, working across product, engineering, and risk.
Oct 2018 – Sep 2025

Samsung AI Center

Cambridge, UK

Director of Research & Head of On-Device AI Mar 2025 – Sep 2025
  • Led a team of 18 researchers and interns across generative AI (large vision models), distributed systems, and audio intelligence.
  • Partnered with Samsung business units to translate research into features shipped to millions of users worldwide.
  • Represented the research organisation in senior strategy forums, aligning the AI research roadmap with hardware and product timelines.
Head of On-Device AI Mar 2023 – Feb 2025
  • Commercialised a single-step, on-device super-resolution model (4×) on Galaxy S25 AI-phone series as part of the Gallery.
  • Commercialised a diffusion-based on-device Ambient Wallpaper in Galaxy S24, Flip-6, and Fold-6 devices.
  • Commercialised an error-correcting deep neural network for the under-display camera in Fold-5 smartphones.
Principal Research Scientist Mar 2021 – Feb 2023
  • Led a team of 5 researchers in embedded machine learning.
  • Shipped personalised sound enhancement on Galaxy S23 — an on-device ASR system now running on over 10 million Samsung smartphones.
Senior Research Scientist Oct 2018 – Feb 2021
  • Developed multi-task training methods for behaviour monitoring and ASR, including work on Samsung Bixby.
  • Developed neural TTS vocoder models and built demonstration systems showcasing their capabilities.
Feb 2015 – Sep 2018

Nokia Bell Labs

Cambridge, UK

Research Scientist Feb 2015 – Sep 2018
  • Invented DeepX — enabling cloud-scale DNN training on resource-constrained IoT devices via variable precision, sparse representations, and pruning.
  • Post-doctoral research in ubiquitous and pervasive computing, focusing on mobile sensing and context awareness.
Sep 2014 – Jan 2015

Aalto University

Espoo, Finland

Post-Doctoral Researcher Sep 2014 – Jan 2015
  • Research on adversarial machine learning and robust AI systems for ubiquitous computing environments.
  • Affiliated with the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT).

Education

2014

PhD in Computer Science

University of Helsinki · Helsinki, Finland

Thesis: "Continuous Context Inference on Mobile Platforms"

2009

MSc in Computer Science

University of Helsinki · Helsinki, Finland

Thesis: "Place Identification : A Comparative Study"

2005

B. Tech. in Compuer Science and Engineering

Institue of Engineering and Management (IEM), WBUT · Kolkata, India

Top 5% of the graduating class

Research Highlights

Selected AI systems taken from research to production at scale.

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Conversational AI for Banking (NatWest)

Building the Chief AI Research Office at NatWest Group — LLM-based conversational AI covering text, audio, and embodied intelligence for enterprise banking services.

LLMsRLHFConversational AIFinTech
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On-Device Super-Resolution (Galaxy S25)

Single-step 4× super-resolution model running entirely on-device as part of the Samsung Gallery. Deployed on the Galaxy S25 AI-phone series.

Generative AIOn-Device MLComputer Vision
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Ambient Wallpaper (Galaxy S24 / Fold-6)

Diffusion-based on-device personalised wallpaper generation that adapts images to weather and time of day. Shipped in Galaxy S24, Flip-6, and Fold-6.

Diffusion ModelsOn-Device AIPersonalisation
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Personalised Sound Enhancement (Galaxy S23)

Speech recognition system that isolates and clarifies human voices in noisy environments. Deployed on over 10 million Samsung smartphones.

ASRSpeech EnhancementEdge AI
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Under-Display Camera DNN (Fold-5)

Error-correcting and efficient deep neural network for the under-display camera, improving image quality on Samsung Galaxy Fold-5 smartphones.

Computer VisionOn-Device AIImage Restoration

DeepX — Efficient DNN on IoT

Pioneered an approach for cloud-scale DNN training on limited IoT platforms supporting variable precision, sparse representations, and pruning.

Model CompressionIoTSparse Networks

Publications

59 papers at premier ML, systems, and UbiComp venues. h-index: 27 · Citations: 5,600+

59 papers

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2026

HierarchicalPrune: Position-aware Compression for Large-Scale Diffusion Models

Y.D. Kwon, R. Li, S. Li, D. Li, S. Bhattacharya, S.I. Venieris

AAAI 2026

2025

Upcycling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Multi-Task Capabilities

R. Chavhan, A. Mehrotra, M. Chadwick, A.G. Ramos, L. Morreale, M. Noroozi, S. Bhattacharya

ICML 2025

EDiT: Efficient Diffusion Transformers with Linear Compressed Attention

P. Becker, A. Mehrotra, R. Chavhan, M. Chadwick, L. Morreale, M. Noroozi, A.G. Ramos, S. Bhattacharya

ICCV 2025

Linear Time Complexity Conformers with SummaryMixing for Streaming Speech Recognition

T. Parcollet, R. van Dalen, S. Zhang, S. Bhattacharya

ICASSP 2025

Evaluation of LLMs in Speech is Often Flawed: Test Set Contamination in LLMs for Speech Recognition

Y. Tseng, T. Parcollet, R. van Dalen, S. Zhang, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2025

Robust Unsupervised Adaptation of a Speech Recogniser Using Entropy Minimisation and Speaker Codes

R.C. van Dalen, S. Zhang, T. Parcollet, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2025

Efficient High-Resolution Image Editing with Hallucination-Aware Loss and Adaptive Tiling

Y.D. Kwon, A. Mehrotra, M. Chadwick, A.G. Ramos, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2025

FraQAT: Quantization Aware Training with Fractional Bits

L. Morreale, A.G.C.P. Ramos, M. Chadwick, M. Noroozi, R. Chavhan, A. Mehrotra, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2025

Benchmarking Rotary Position Embeddings for Automatic Speech Recognition

S. Zhang, T. Parcollet, R. van Dalen, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2025

2024

MobileQuant: Mobile-Friendly Quantization for On-Device Language Models

F. Tan, R. Lee, L. Dudziak, S.X. Hu, S. Bhattacharya, T. Hospedales, G. Tzimiropoulos, B. Martinez

EMNLP 2024

SummaryMixing: A Linear-Complexity Alternative to Self-Attention for Speech Recognition and Understanding

T. Parcollet, R. van Dalen, S. Zhang, S. Bhattacharya

Interspeech 2024

Linear-Complexity Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Processing

S. Zhang, T. Parcollet, R. van Dalen, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2024

2023

On the (In)efficiency of Acoustic Feature Extractors for Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning

T. Parcollet, S. Zhang, R. van Dalen, A.G.C.P. Ramos, S. Bhattacharya

Interspeech 2023

Real-Time Personalised Speech Enhancement Transformers with Dynamic Cross-attended Speaker Representations

S. Zhang, M. Chadwick, A.G.C.P. Ramos, T. Parcollet, R. van Dalen, S. Bhattacharya

Interspeech 2023

Resource Efficient Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition

A. Mehrotra, A.G.C.P. Ramos, N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2023

Fast Inference Through the Reuse of Attention Maps in Diffusion Models

R. Hunter, L. Dudziak, M.S. Abdelfattah, A. Mehrotra, S. Bhattacharya, H. Wen

arXiv 2023

2022

Conditioning Sequence-to-Sequence Networks with Learned Activations

A.G.C.P. Ramos, A. Mehrotra, N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya

ICLR 2022

Cross-Attention is All You Need: Real-Time Streaming Transformers for Personalised Speech Enhancement

S. Zhang, M. Chadwick, A.G.C.P. Ramos, S. Bhattacharya

arXiv 2022

2021

NAS-Bench-ASR: Reproducible Neural Architecture Search for Speech Recognition

A. Mehrotra, A.G.C.P. Ramos, S. Bhattacharya, L. Dudziak, R. Vipperla, T. Chau, M.S. Abdelfattah, S. Ishtiaq, N.D. Lane

ICLR 2021

Defensive Tensorization: Randomized Tensor Parametrization for Robust Neural Networks

A. Bulat, J. Kossaifi, S. Bhattacharya, Y. Panagakis, T. Hospedales, G. Tzimiropoulos, N.D. Lane, M. Pantic

BMVC 2021

2020

Countering Acoustic Adversarial Attacks in Microphone-Equipped Smart Home Devices

S. Bhattacharya, D. Manousakas, A. Ramos, S. Venieris, N. Lane, C. Mascolo

IMWUT 2020

Augmenting Conversational Agents with Ambient Acoustic Contexts

C. Park, C. Min, S. Bhattacharya, F. Kawsar

MobileHCI 2020

Dynamic Distributed Edge Resource Provisioning via Online Learning across Timescales

W. You, L. Jiao, S. Bhattacharya, Y. Zhang

IEEE SECON 2020

Iterative Compression of End-to-End ASR Model using AutoML

A. Mehrotra, J. Yeo, Y. Lee, R. Vipperla, M.S. Abdelfattah, S. Bhattacharya et al.

arXiv 2020

Bunched LPCNet: Vocoder for Low-Cost Neural Text-to-Speech Systems

R. Vipperla, S. Park, K. Choo, S. Ishtiaq, K. Min, S. Bhattacharya et al.

arXiv 2020

Learning to Listen On-Device: Present and Future Perspectives of On-Device ASR

R. Vipperla, S. Ishtiaq, R. Li, S. Bhattacharya, I. Leontiadis, N.D. Lane

GetMobile 2020

2019

MobiSR: Efficient On-Device Super-Resolution through Heterogeneous Mobile Processors

R. Lee, S.I. Venieris, L. Dudziak, S. Bhattacharya, N.D. Lane

MobiCom 2019

AudiDoS: Real-Time Denial-of-Service Adversarial Attacks on Deep Audio Models

T. Gong, A.G.C.P. Ramos, S. Bhattacharya, A. Mathur, F. Kawsar

ICMLA 2019

2018

Multimodal Deep Learning for Activity and Context Recognition

V. Radu, C. Tong, S. Bhattacharya, N.D. Lane, C. Mascolo, M.K. Marina, F. Kawsar

IMWUT 2018

Deterministic Binary Filters for Convolutional Neural Networks

V.W.-S. Tseng, S. Bhattacharya, J. Fernández-Marqués, M. Alizadeh, C. Tong, N.D. Lane

IJCAI 2018

Using Deep Data Augmentation Training to Address Software and Hardware Heterogeneities in Wearable and Smartphone Sensing

A. Mathur, T. Zhang, S. Bhattacharya, P. Veličković et al.

IPSN 2018

Cross-modal Recurrent Models for Weight Objective Prediction from Multimodal Time-series Data

P. Veličković, L. Karazija, N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya et al.

PervasiveHealth 2018

On-the-Fly Deterministic Binary Filters for Memory Efficient Keyword Spotting on Embedded Devices

J. Fernández-Marqués, V.T.-S. Tseng, S. Bhattacharya, N.D. Lane

EMDL @ MobiSys 2018

Monitoring Daily Activities of Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Connected Health Devices

S. Bhattacharya, A.G.C.P. Ramos, F. Kawsar, N.D. Lane et al.

UbiComp 2018

2017

DeepEye: Resource Efficient Local Execution of Multiple Deep Vision Models using Wearable Commodity Hardware

A. Mathur, N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya, A. Boran, C. Forlivesi, F. Kawsar

MobiSys 2017

Squeezing Deep Learning into Mobile and Embedded Devices

N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya, A. Mathur, P. Georgiev, C. Forlivesi, F. Kawsar

IEEE Pervasive Computing 2017

Low-resource Multi-task Audio Sensing via Shared Deep Neural Network Representations

P. Georgiev, S. Bhattacharya, N.D. Lane, C. Mascolo

IMWUT 2017

Scaling Health Analytics to Millions Without Compromising Privacy using Deep Distributed Behavior Models

P. Veličković, N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya et al.

PervasiveHealth 2017

2016

Sparsification and Separation of Deep Learning Layers for Constrained Resource Inference on Wearables

S. Bhattacharya, N.D. Lane

SenSys 2016

DeepX: A Software Accelerator for Low-Power Deep Learning Inference on Mobile Devices

N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya, P. Georgiev, C. Forlivesi, L. Jiao, L. Qendro, F. Kawsar

IPSN 2016

From Smart to Deep: Robust Activity Recognition on Smartwatches using Deep Learning

S. Bhattacharya, N.D. Lane

PerCom 2016

Towards Multimodal Deep Learning for Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices

V. Radu, N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya, C. Mascolo, M.K. Marina, F. Kawsar

UbiComp 2016

DXTK: Enabling Resource-Efficient Deep Learning on Mobile and Embedded Devices

N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya, A. Mathur, C. Forlivesi, F. Kawsar

MobiCASE 2016

Activity Recognition on Smart Devices: Dealing with Diversity in the Wild

H. Blunck, S. Bhattacharya, A. Stisen et al.

GetMobile 2016

2015

Smart Devices are Different: Assessing and Mitigating Mobile Sensing Heterogeneities for Activity Recognition

A. Stisen, H. Blunck, S. Bhattacharya et al.

SenSys 2015

An Early Resource Characterization of Deep Learning on Wearables, Smartphones and IoT Devices

N.D. Lane, S. Bhattacharya, P. Georgiev, C. Forlivesi, F. Kawsar

IoT-App @ SenSys 2015

LookAhead: Augmenting Crowdsourced Website Reputation Systems with Predictive Modeling

S. Bhattacharya, O. Huhta, N. Asokan

TRUST 2015

Checksum Gestures: Continuous Gestures as an Out-of-Band Channel for Secure Pairing

I. Ahmed, Y. Ye, S. Bhattacharya, N. Asokan, G. Jacucci, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma

UbiComp 2015

2014

Using Unlabeled Data in a Sparse-Coding Framework for Human Activity Recognition

S. Bhattacharya, P. Nurmi, N. Hammerla, T. Plötz

Pervasive and Mobile Computing 2014

Robust and Energy-Efficient Trajectory Tracking for Mobile Devices

S. Bhattacharya, H. Blunck, M.B. Kjærgaard, P. Nurmi

IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing 2014

The Company You Keep: Mobile Malware Infection Rates and Inexpensive Risk Indicators

H.T.T. Truong, E. Lagerspetz, P. Nurmi, A.J. Oliner, S. Tarkoma, N. Asokan, S. Bhattacharya

WWW 2014

2013

Gaussian Process-Based Predictive Modeling for Bus Ridership

S. Bhattacharya, S. Phithakkitnukoon, P. Nurmi, A. Klami, M. Veloso, C. Bento

UbiComp Adjunct 2013

Automatic Correction of Annotation Boundaries in Activity Datasets by Class Separation Maximization

R. Kirkham, A. Khan, S. Bhattacharya, N. Hammerla et al.

UbiComp Adjunct 2013

2011

Energy-Efficient Trajectory Tracking for Mobile Devices

M.B. Kjærgaard, S. Bhattacharya, H. Blunck, P. Nurmi

MobiSys 2011

Influence of Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions on User Attention in Indoor Smart Spaces

P. Nurmi, A. Salovaara, S. Bhattacharya, T. Pulkkinen, G. Kahl

IUI 2011

2010

A Grid-Based Algorithm for On-Device GSM Positioning

P. Nurmi, S. Bhattacharya, J. Kukkonen

UbiComp 2010

2008

Identifying Meaningful Places: The Non-Parametric Way

P. Nurmi, S. Bhattacharya

Pervasive 2008

Markov Property of Continuous Dislocation Band Propagation

A. Chatterjee, A. Sarkar, S. Bhattacharya, P. Mukherjee, N. Gayathri, P. Barat

Physics Letters A 2008

2006

A Survey on Different Video Watermarking Techniques and Comparative Analysis with H.264/AVC

S. Bhattacharya, T. Chattopadhyay, A. Pal

IEEE ISCE 2006
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