Siva Reddy

Siva Reddy is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and Department of Linguistics. He is also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, core faculty member at Mila (Quebec AI Institute), and a research scientist at ServiceNow Research. His research focuses on advancing natural language understanding through symbolic and deep learning models, emphasizing reasoning, multimodal integration, and safety.

• Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University
• PhD from University of Edinburgh

Research themes include:

• Language representation learning for machine reasoning
• Conversational AI with retrieval-augmentation for trustworthiness
• Multi-language and safe AI deployment
• Integration of language with vision/speech modalities

He has received prestigious awards including the Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Google PhD Fellowship. His advising portfolio includes active PhD students like Vaibhav Adlakha, Zichao Li, and Mehar Bhatia, with alumni such as Andreas Madsen (now at Guide Labs) and Edoardo Ponti (Assistant Professor at University of Edinburgh). He contributes to academic leadership as Senior Area Chair for EMNLP 2024 and Ethics Area Chair for COLM 2024.