Summary
Deepta Rajan is a senior AI R&D leader with 12+ years of applied ML and signal-processing experience building multimodal solutions across enterprise and healthcare domains. Currently scaling an AI team at Blue Origin, she previously led Principal Applied Scientist efforts at Microsoft shipping Copilot and OfficeAI features that improved multimodal summarization and Text-to-SQL production performance. Her research track record includes ICML, NeurIPS/ML4H, KDD and SPIE publications and award-winning work on medical imaging and robust semi-supervised learning for pathology, which translated to measurable clinical and commercial impact. She excels at bridging researchers, engineers and clinicians to take algorithms from papers to production, designing human-in-the-loop evaluation pipelines and responsibility-by-design processes. Known for pragmatic experimentation, she combines deep signal-processing roots with modern vision-language and retrieval-augmented systems to optimize latency/quality trade-offs. Based in Redmond, she also cultivates talent and DEI initiatives, and ran invited research series and internal hackathons that seeded foundational-model prototypes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication at Visvesvaraya Technological University