Siddhartha Jayanti is a PhD student in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). His research spans Algorithms, Machine Learning, Game Theory, and Distributed Computing and Cryptography.

Siddhartha learnt Samskrtam through Samskrita Bharati USA's SAFL (Samskrtam As a Foreign Language) program in high school, and further studied Samskrtam during his bachelor's degree at Princeton University. Siddhartha is Bilingual in Telugu and English, learnt French in high school, and speaks, reads, and writes Samskrtam. He enjoys studying ancient Samskrtam texts on mathematics in poetry—a discipline he was introduced to by Fields Medal winning Mathematician Professor Manjul Bhargava of Princeton—and writing poetry in Telugu and Samskrtam.