Hi, I am Nithya Shikarpur! I am a musician and a computer scientist. I am constantly looking for ways to combine music and technology for the purpose of analysis and creative exploration of music. Under the supervision of Dr. Anna Huang , I am working on human-AI interactive music co-creation and generative modeling for Hindustani Classical music. Previously, I was a research assistant at Digital Audio Processing Lab, IIT Bombay where I worked with Dr. Preeti Rao , mostly on projects involving music information retrieval and computational analysis for Hindustani classical music.

I finished my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus in December 2019 and am currently pursuing my masters at Mila and Université de Montréal . I have been learning Hindustani classical vocal music since the age of 4 under the guidance of Smt. Geeta Hegde, Sri Dhananjay Hegde and am currently recieving training from Dr. Ruchira Kedar . I also had the opportunity to learn Bharathanatyam from Guru P. Praveen Kumar for over 10 years.

Apart from work, I enjoy reading, singing, exploring new styles of music and cracking terrible jokes. Feel free to drop in a mail at snnithya[at]gmail[dot]com if you would like to discuss ideas or have a chat!