Kunwar Siddharth

Kunwar Siddharth is a researcher and educator working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities — driven by a single conviction: that every sentient being is precious, and that technology is only ever a tool to make life more just, humane, and resourceful.

He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at UPES, Dehradun, where his research examines caste as a form of graded algorithmic inequality. He studies how caste-correlated proxies — surnames, language, and institutional records — quietly become implicit decision rules inside large language models, multimodal generative systems, and AI agents deployed across hiring, education, finance, and welfare.

Alongside his research, Kunwar has a deep passion for poetry. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Portsmouth and is the author of The Birds of Passage, a collection of poems. From childhood through his university years he performed standup and spoken-word poetry, and went on to perform for two years across Reading, Oxford, and London.

He is actively seeking opportunities to learn from and work with established researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the AI and ethics domain who are committed to building a more just and humanistic technological future.