Puneet Agrawal

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led a team of 30+ engineers at Microsoft.
Co-created Ruuh, a successful chatbot with 2.3 million users.
Developed Cortana's personality and improved BING relevance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C AI and NLP expert with a focus on user engagement.

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Core Skills

SearchMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingChatbot DevelopmentInformation RetrievalSearch Engines

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBig DataData MiningHadoopMapReduceNLPNatural Language UnderstandingScalabilitySoftware DevelopmentText MiningWeb Mining

About

I work on AI, NLP and Search related projects at Microsoft. I currently lead a team working on Search Grounding. Earlier, I was involved in building human-like AI powered chatbot, Ruuh for young audience. http://aka.ms/ruuhstory In past, was one of the creators of personality of Cortana - Windows Personal Assistant. Also developed new algorithms to improve BING relevance and experiences in Bing, Hyderabad. I was particularly involved in relevance improvements in global markets. I have several patents with USPTO in related fields and several research papers in leading conferences.

Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Group Eng Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

I lead a team of 30+ engineers and data scientists who power Autosuggestions for several Microsoft search endpoints. We run a very large scale service with very low latency requirements making it a unique problem.

Machine LearningSearchAlgorithms

Principal Engineering Manager

Mar 2017 – Aug 2022 · 5 yrs 5 mos

I worked on some NLP projects in Microsoft, trying to understand if 2018 was really the Image Net moment in NLP.
Earlier, I co-created Ruuh, Microsoft's chatbot desgined to strike chord with young audience. Experimented with human-like attributes like texting, seeing, creativity etc. At 2.3+ million users, Ruuh was one of the most successful social bots in India!

Natural Language ProcessingChatbot DevelopmentNLP

Senior Software Development Engineer

Aug 2008 – Feb 2017 · 8 yrs 6 mos

As a relevance engineer I was responsible for improving BING search quality and recently developing experiences for Cortana.
I worked on many projects like developing Cortana's personality, web relevance improvements, adult classification and filtering, query classification etc.
Have been rated top bucket performer for 8 straight years while in BING.

AlgorithmsInformation RetrievalSearch Engines