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Anush Sankaran

AI Researcher

Greater Vancouver, Canada15 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered no-coding deep learning IDE at IBM.
  • Improved AI security model precision by 4x.
  • Published multiple research papers in AI and security.
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About

For updated publication list, please look at https://goodboyanush.github.io/blogs/bio.html My passion lies in truly democratizing AI/Deep Learning. With all the promises of AI, it still has some major bottleneck in consumption: steep learning curve for people, and not friendly across different hardware architectures (embedded system). Over the last 5+ years of my industrial research career, I have strived to make deep learning more friendly to use and deploy: 1. IBM Deep Learning IDE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDQ0AWcUBnE): Built the first no-coding, visual drag-and-drop platform to design deep learning models and automatically generatel code in Pytorch, TF, Keras, Caffe. Product Release @ IBM Think Event 2018! 2. DLPaper2Code (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03543): Convert the PDF of a research paper directly into execution ready code by extracting text and image information from papers. 3. DL Model Recommend (https://github.com/goodboyanush/dl-model-recommend): For a given dataset, recommend a suitable DL model and also predict the model's accuracy on the given dataset. Avoid unnecessary brute force exploration of existing models (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbDKQQZqKvU). 4. Deeplite Neutrino (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04073): Given any dataset/model, automatically compress the model's architecture by optimizing the model size, number of paramerters, and execution time, and enable the huge model to be deployed on any low-power, low-cost edge device. My Ph.D. thesis lies in the domain of applied deep learning in the intersection of computer vision and biometrics, titled "Learning Representations for Fingerprint Variants". My thesis advisors are Dr. Mayank Vatsa and Dr. Richa Singh. I was awarded the prestigious TCS Research Fellowship for my Ph.D.

Experience

15 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Research Scientist

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Did you know, that OneDrive and SharePoint,
  • ✅ Has over 1.25 billion active users worldwide
  • ✅ Stores at least 1.2 million terabytes of data (that’s about 1.2 exabytes of files)
  • ✅Orgs add over 2 billion pieces of content every day
  • With so many files uploaded, shared, edited, and synced every second, the question is: how do we ensure that amidst all this content, the right content is surfaced, at the right time, to the right user?

Principal Applied Scientist

Sep 2023Aug 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • AgentSOC Research to Production: Built reusable, scalable post-training pipelines across multi-tenant environments, accelerating iteration for model customization and optimization. Our RL based finetuned model improved the alert triaging precision by 4x. As a part of this end-to-end pipeline, collaborated with multiple teams to curate high-quality labelled data across multiple scenarios for evaluation and continuous benchmarking.
  • AI Research for security:
  • ✅ built a multi-agent Autogen system that improved PyRIT red-teaming success by 40% (https://github.com/Azure/PyRIT)
  • ✅ drove research with an IJCAI 2025 submission on explainable jailbreak defenses (https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12321)
  • ✅ two accepted MLADS 2025 papers, an MSJAR paper,
  • ✅ open-sourced DefenderBench toolkit (https://github.com/microsoft/DefenderBench);
  • ✅ along with 4 Microsoft patents in the space of security and AI

Senior Research Scientist

Sep 2021Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Using state-of-art deep learning techniques to improve the security of Microsoft products.
  • ✅ Built a scalable, compliant ML training pipeline; processing ~10M+ messages/day with automated cleaning and fully reproducible runs—creating a reusable foundation for training ML models for several applications.
  • ✅ Experimented with an eyes-off, LLM-based phishing detector using unstructured free text content, delivering 41% improvement of the previously production system
  • ✅ Productionized the LLM via model optimization and quantization for remote inference on live traffic, reliably serving ~200 RPS per instance with monitoring and safety gates.

Deeplite, inc.

Senior Research Scientist

Feb 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

  • Deeplite provides an AI-Driven Optimizer to make Deep Neural Networks faster, smaller and energy-efficient from cloud to edge computing.

International institute of information technology bangalore

Adjunct Professor

Jan 2019Apr 2019 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Co-teaching grad level course on Visual Recognition along with Prof. Dinesh Babu Jayagopi.
  • Course Details: https://github.com/goodboyanush/iiit-bangalore-march-april-2019

Ibm research ai

2 roles

Senior Researcher

Jun 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Data for AI, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Democratization of AI

Researcher

Nov 2015May 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Democratization of AI

West virginia university

Research Intern

Jul 2014Oct 2014 · 3 mos

  • The research idea is to perform eye gaze analysis for latent fingerprint matching. Analyzing the eye gaze patterns of experts while matching latent prints, provides insights of the process and heuristics used by the experts. The gained insights can be used to design better algorithms for automated latent fingerprint matching.
  • This research is advised by Prof. Afzel Noore and Dr. Keith Morris

Hong kong polytechnic university

Research Student Exchange

Jun 2011Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Hong Kong

  • Worked as an exchange research scholar with Dr. Ajay Kumar in HongKong Polytechnic University. It was a 2 month research project. During this internship, we worked in a Biometrics project for fingerprint recognition

Iiit delhi

PhD Scholar

Jul 2010Aug 2017 · 7 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • My thesis focuses on the application of machine learning solution for the problems of automated latent fingerprint matching and smartphone based fingerphoto matching. I have contributed in the problems of representation learning and classification under the influence of noisy and limited data.
  • I have also worked on unsupervised feature learning methods for various applications and improving the learning capacity of deep network architectures.

Education

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2010Jan 2017

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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