Nikit Begwani

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

8+ years of experience in AI and NLP.
Expert in deploying large scale deep learning models.
Passionate about research and continuous learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled leader in AI/NLP within the Advertising Technology sector.

Contact

nikit.begwani@microsoft.com +918011028235 LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

A/B TestingAcademic ResearchAcademic WritingAlgorithmsApplied Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksC++CUDAComputer VisionData AnalysisData IntegrityData ScienceData StructuresData Visualization

About

AI/NLP enthusiast with 8+ years of industry exposure. Have experience of training, scaling and deploying large scale deep learning models in production under latency constraints. I am a continuous and passionate learner with an obsession to optimally solve a problem. Few things I admire - NLP, Research, automation, growth mindset and inclusion.

Experience

Microsoft

5 roles

Principal Applied Science Manager

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Leading a team of applied scientist and successfully contributing towards retrieval and re-ranking SLM/LLM models at Microsoft Ads

Senior Applied Science Manager

Dec 2023 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Senior Applied Scientist

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Research Engineer

Jul 2017 – May 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Software Development Engineering Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Gifu university

Winter School Student

Dec 2015 – Dec 2015 · 0 mo · Gifu, Japan

I was one of the 10 students selected for a month long annual student exchange program.
Experienced Japanese culture and worked on computational biology problems related to analysis of soil data.

Csea, iit guwahati

Executive Council Member of CSEA

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos · IIT GUWAHATI

The Computer Science and Engineering Association(CSEA) is a student body under the guidance of Professors which works for the welfare of students of CSE department and bridge the gap between students of different years.
Student Mentorship, Organizing Hackathons, Organizing Talks, Company Collaboration, etc were the few initiatives I was working on