Ankur Garg
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkur Garg is a seasoned ML/NLP engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade conversational AI and agentic systems from research prototypes to large-scale deployments. Currently at Microsoft AI, he focuses on function-calling, synthetic data pipelines, and RL-driven improvements to tool invocation, after leading key features and model-rollout infrastructure for Gemini at DeepMind and Google. He has a strong track record of improving latency, release cadence, and NLU quality for Assistant-scale systems, plus patents and peer-reviewed publications from prior research roles at Adobe and UT Austin. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep technical rigor with product-focused engineering—architecting proxy-to-production evaluation metrics that ensure lab gains translate to real-world reliability. Ankur’s background in both academic research and applied infrastructure gives him a rare ability to close the loop between model training, synthetic trajectory generation, and robust deployment.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeeHigh School, Non Medical (Physics, Chemistry and Maths), High School, Non Medical (Physics, Chemistry and Maths) at Mount Carmel SchoolKailash Bahl DAV Sr. Secondary Public School
Hindi, English, Punjabi
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes9
python9
rouge7
wikipedia6
summarization4
facebook-feed4
campus4
evaluation4
sentence-similarity4
facebook2
machine-learning2
feed2
android-app2
acl1
graph1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ankurgarg101/ankurgarg101.github.io
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:36 pushes in 1 year 8 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
ankurgarg101/BusinessInfo
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
reactmobile-applicationreact-nativefirebasetracking
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