Sayantan Basu — AI Researcher
I am a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft, where I work on advancing the Microsoft 365 suite — including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word — by building intelligent features that enhance productivity for billions of users worldwide. My focus lies in developing large-scale applied machine learning solutions that integrate seamlessly into everyday workflows to make people’s work smarter and more efficient. Prior to this, I was an Applied Scientist II in International Machine Learning at Amazon, where I specialized in building and deploying large-scale forecasting and recommendation systems. My work involved leveraging advanced techniques such as graph neural networks, causal inference, and hierarchical modeling to solve complex problems in demand forecasting. I successfully scaled and productionized multiple systems that recommended products for sellers to onboard at cluster, category, and brand levels. These solutions were deployed across all sellers pan-India, consistently exceeding revenue targets between 2023 and 2025 and generating millions of dollars in incremental revenue. To address data sparsity, I designed custom business-specific loss functions. This work was recently published at IAAI 2025. Earlier, I represented my work at Amazon’s internal ML conferences (2022 and 2023), where our forecasting solutions received the Best Paper Award for their measurable business impact. Before joining Amazon, I worked at Cisco, where I developed ML systems for production log analysis and explainable speech emotion detection, along with backend development using Spring Boot, Postgres, and Docker. I hold an M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Guwahati (Class of 2020). My master’s thesis, published at SDPEMNLP 2020, introduced ERLKG, a pipeline for predicting biomedical entities similar to COVID-19 — some of which were later explored as potential treatments. Outside of work, I enjoy playing guitar, discovering new music, and exploring cutting-edge ideas in machine learning.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Applied Scientist in the E-commerce and SaaS industries, specializing in machine learning and forecasting.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 9 yrs 1 mo
Skills
- Demand Forecasting
- Deep Learning
Career Highlights
- Developed large-scale ML solutions for Microsoft 365.
- Best Paper Award at Amazon's internal ML conference.
- Published research on biomedical entity prediction.
Work Experience
Microsoft
Senior Applied Scientist (5 mos)
Amazon
Applied Scientist II (2 yrs 3 mos)
Applied Scientist (2 yrs 2 mos)
DeepwizAI
Author (2 yrs 9 mos)
Cisco
Software Developer (9 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
M.Tech (2 yrs 1 mo)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Project Officer (1 yr 5 mos)
Summer intern (1 mo)
Education
Master of Technology - MTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Institute Of Engineering and Management
High school at Bhavans gangabux kanoria vidyamandir