Deepak Chittajallu
Senior Principal Applied Scientist - Bing Multimedia Team at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDeepak Chittajallu is a Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft’s Bing Multimedia Team with over a decade of experience applying machine learning, computer vision, and NLP to improve large-scale multimedia search. He has driven production adoption of multimodal vision-language models, designed novel weakly supervised pipelines for query intent and ranking, and built evaluation metrics and sampling strategies that improved image search quality and freshness. Before Microsoft he led biomedical imaging and surgical data science initiatives at Kitware, co-directing HistomicsTK and publishing in top venues like Nature Methods and CVPR. His background spans hands-on algorithm development from postdoctoral intravital microscopy analysis at Harvard to PhD research in medical image analysis, reflecting a rare blend of deep academic rigor and product-focused engineering. Colleagues describe him as a practical researcher who pairs Bayesian and debiasing techniques with agile systems thinking to turn noisy engagement signals into robust ranking features.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of HoustonJawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadPostdoctoral Training Computational Biology, Postdoctoral Training Computational Biology at Harvard University
Github Skills (130)
python10
image-processing10
data-management10
bids10
scientific-computing10
image-analysis10
javascript10
computer-vision10
medical-image-processing10
image-registration10
jupyter-notebook10
vtk10
tubes10
machine-learning10
segmentation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KitwareMedicalPublications/2017-TBME-USPhaseEstimation
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 35 pushes, 38 branches in 4 months
KitwareMedical/CardiacUltrasoundPhaseEstimation
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 18 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years
cardiacmethodresolutionultrasoundtemporal
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