May 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Aug 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Managing and tech leading an awesome team of applied scientists and engineers which has shipped Smart Reply on Outlook (Web and Mobile clients) and Teams. This is an extremely useful productivity feature saving a lot of time and effort for our users
• Lead the effort to ship Smart Reply to multiple international languages in Outlook
• Drove the expansion of Smart Suggestion canvas to intelligent actions like "Reply with Meeting" and "Reply with File". Shipped these experiences in Outlook Web.

Aug 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs

• Lead projects in the productivity space aimed at helping people efficiently manage information from email, meetings, and documents. Collaborated with Microsoft Research to power Cortana with cutting-edge features like Automatic Task Extraction from emails.
• Lead incubation project for meeting creation through a natural language interface. We added people, location and scheduling time intelligence to make meeting creation snappy

Aug 2009 – Aug 2015 · 6 yrs

• Designed and developed the infrastructure and initial model for the personalized card ranker on the Proactive canvas of Cortana
• Implemented and shipped relevance and platform enhancements for contextual/personalized search in Bing.
• Worked on several features of Bing Homepage to increase user engagement and satisfaction like supporting video and re-vamping the visual layout.
• Developed a platform for anyone to quickly prototype dynamic experiences on the Bing homepage and submit their ideas for deployment by abstracting away the details of the rendering stack.

Jan 2009 – Mar 2009 · 2 mos · Redmond, Washington

• Evaluation of anchor text as a feature in Commerce answer ranker in Bing

Jul 2006 – Jun 2007 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• I carried out post silicon verification of the circuitry carrying out important signal processing functions like Edge Enhancement, De-ringing and Dynamic Natural Color Contrast Creation in a DTV chip of ATI. My work required a thorough understanding of the circuitry and development of comprehensive test suites for verification on Palladium, an engine emulator from Cadence.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• As a member of the mobile graphics team, I wrote drivers for Graphics accelerators in Samsung mobile chips on various Mobile operating systems like Symbian and Palm. To also demonstrate the capability of the graphics hardware, I implemented OpenGLES on various platforms using the drivers I had written and created visual demos.