Applied Scientist at Microsoft Turing, building AI reasoning and agent capabilities for M365 Copilot. IIT Bombay CSE '23. Interested in LLMs, NLP, and applied ML.

Current Role

Applied Scientist
Microsoft Microsoft Turing · Aug 2024 – Present
Working on M365 Copilot's AI reasoning and agent capabilities. Key contributions:
  • Built the Analyst Agent — prompt-engineered Python Code Interpreter (CI) integration that improved CI trigger rate by ~100% and user satisfaction by ~150%.
  • Improved numerical citation rendering for CI output, yielding a 40% improvement in P99/P95 ChatLTR.
  • Drove GPT-5 transition; prompt structure optimizations reduced ChatFTR by 30% across performance tiers.
  • Developed synthetic data generation pipelines for fine-tuning reasoning models across code generation, data analysis, web search, and multi-site crawling use cases.
  • Built synthetic tenant generation systems producing realistic enterprise environments (emails, meetings, calendar events) for agent training and evaluation.
  • Implemented agentic graders for the Outlook Agent to detect hallucinations and measure inbox coverage.
LLMsPrompt EngineeringAgent SystemsSynthetic Data

Education

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (with Honors)
IIT Bombay IIT Bombay · 2019 – 2023
Minor in Data Science and Machine Learning  ·  CGPA: 9.04 / 10

Full-time Experience

Data Analyst II
Walmart Walmart Global Tech India · Jul 2023 – Jul 2024
Worked on the Smart Subs team, recommending substitute items when products go out of stock. Trained XGBoost and Neural Network models to rerank substitutes based on user preferences from historical data. Improved quantity ratio logic to account for item pricing, achieving a 10% reduction in average price of substitutes recommended to customers.
MLRecommender SystemsXGBoost

Internships

Machine Learning Intern
KnowDis KnowDis Data Science · Jan 2023 – May 2023
Developed deep learning models for background removal and human body parsing as part of a deep fashion project. Fine-tuned a ViT-based Segformer on semantic segmentation datasets, and integrated Segment Anything and Grounding DINO for targeted object retention.
Computer VisionViT / Segformer
Quantitative Trader Intern
Quadeye Quadeye Securities · May 2022 – Jul 2022
Developed crypto trading strategies using Quadeye's proprietary tech stack. Backtested strategies on historical data with constraints on gross exposure, delta, volumes, positions, and orders — ensuring liquidation of positions upon expiry.
Quant FinanceAlgo Trading

Research Interests

Applied Machine Learning Large Language Models Natural Language Processing Computer Vision

Academic Achievements

AIR 48
JEE Advanced
2019
AIR 42
JEE Main
2019
AIR 19
KVPY