Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• [Bing Multimedia] I built the first LLM-based online evaluation metric for Bing's Image Feed. I was then made Tech Lead for the Ranking team consisting of 6 ML engineers. Under my leadership, we migrated the ranking stack from traditional ML models to deep learning-based ones. We deploy and maintain rankers for both the Image Feed and Related Content products, commanding a Daily Active User (DAU) count of millions of users.

Sep 2019 – Aug 2024 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• [Turing] I worked across several Microsoft products leveraging AI. The highlight was my work on Sydney (a.k.a. Microsoft Copilot)'s defensive classifier, making it capable of handling conversational context leading to a 10% increase in conversation length, 27% drop in offensiveness, 50% drop in compute requirement. I also worked on long-horizon projects such as high-quality image synthesis for user search queries.
• [Weather Forecasting] I was one of the early deep learning advisors and contributors to the precipitation nowcasting product which is now deployed at Microsoft Weather and boasts millions of users.

Feb 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• [Microsoft Research] My research focused on image synthesis using captions, conversations, and spatial layouts. I expanded my prior dialogue research to multi-modal dialogue systems. My research agenda at MSR led to several publications at top conferences. Part of my time was devoted to integrating state-of-the-art research into Microsoft products among which the most prominent partnership was with Microsoft Support on their query understanding system.