Kiran Tomlinson
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKiran Tomlinson is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft and a Cornell PhD in Computer Science specializing in modeling preferences for discrete choice, voting, and recommender systems. Over a decade of experience spans research internships at Microsoft, contributions to KDD, AAAI, and ICML, and a visiting instructor role where they taught data structures and theoretical CS courses. Their work blends theory and applied systems — for example, developing metrics and optimization methods for information flow in Microsoft Teams that led to a KDD paper and a patent-pending enterprise recommendation approach. Kiran’s background includes early systems and tooling experience at NASA and university labs, giving them practical software engineering chops alongside rigorous academic training. Based in Bellevue, WA, they join Microsoft Research in September 2024 to continue translating preference models into deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Mathematics, Summa cum laude, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Mathematics, Summa cum laude at Carleton College
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Github Skills (21)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tomlinsonk/site-graph
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Visualize the link graph of a website.
Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 25 pushes in 11 months
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tomlinsonk/tomlinsonk
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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