Rajpal Kulhari

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 4 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

12+ years in large-scale search systems.
Expert in LLMs and Generative AI.
Led impactful AI projects at Microsoft.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI-driven search technologies with extensive experience in large-scale systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Large Language Models (llm)Generative Ai

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAnalyticsBig DataCC++Critical ThinkingCross-functional CollaborationsData MiningData ScienceData StructuresHadoopHiveInformation ExtractionJavaMachine Learning

About

Applied Science Manager with 12+ years of experience building large-scale search and retrieval systems. Specialize in retrieval, ranking, and content understanding models that improve relevance, trust, and grounding for LLMs. Currently leading a team in Microsoft AI focused on contextual follow-on suggestions across Copilot and Search. We build low-latency, end-to-end systems that help users complete their search journey faster.

Experience

Amazon

Science Manager

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Microsoft ai

Principal Applied Science Manager

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr

My team built follow-on suggestions for Copilot Search, developing multi-turn dialogue and contextual retrieval experiences.
I lead Applied Scientists and Engineers to design and ship this, including evaluation frameworks and SLM fine-tuning for latency, quality, and user experience.

Large Language Models (LLM)Generative AISearch Engine RankingCross-functional Collaborations

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Applied Science Manager

Jul 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

Led the design and launch of prompt-building experience for Bing Chat, enhancing user engagement.
Streamlined user interactions by reducing the effort and time required to craft detailed queries.
Enabled users to discover diverse intents, leading to more comprehensive and effective responses.

Senior Applied Scientist

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

I am the technical lead for Bing’s “People Also Ask” feature, which provides relevant follow-up QnA to user queries. I lead a team of data scientists and develop and refine ML models using deep learning (NLP), machine comprehension, search log analysis, big data processing, Python/R, C# and other technologies.

Applied Scientist II

Sep 2016 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Led data science projects from inception to completion, including proposals, exploratory data analysis and driving implementations.
Developed multiple forecasting models for sports, reality shows, and demand forecasting using latest developments in ML and deep learning techniques
More@
http://blogs.bing.com/search-quality-insights/2015/03/15/leveraging-search-algorithms-for-bing-predicts

Applied Scientist

Nov 2015 – Aug 2016 · 9 mos

I was part of relevance team in Bing India. Worked on Related search feature that help users in saving time by better reformulation and exploration. Specifically, I worked on improving ranking model of query-suggestions.

Makemytrip.com

Data Scientist

Feb 2015 – Nov 2015 · 9 mos

Worked on various projects, including:
● Improved Hotel Recommendation system
● Personalized search ranking
Tech Stack:
Machine Learning, Python, Hadoop, Hive, Spark etc.

Sapient

Software Engineer

Jul 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Worked on a semantic search platform (IR system) that allows finding relevant research documents using latest advancement in search space like ontology-driven classification, word-sense disambiguation and graph search.