Summary
Mohaddeseh Bastan is a Senior Research SDE at Microsoft with nine years of experience specializing in NLP, machine translation, and biomedical language tasks. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and has led research and engineering work that powered Microsoft Translator V4 and a document image translation feature for Word, bridging LLM research with product-grade systems. Equally fluent in PyTorch and TensorFlow, she has a strong track record deploying robust language identification and error-detection models informed by live unsupervised data. Her background as a graduate instructor and multiple Microsoft internships reflects a blend of deep academic rigor and practical, user-focused engineering. Notably, she moves projects from novel research to production impact, improving accessibility and translation quality at scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of Technology
High School, High School at Farzanegan (National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents)
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Persian, English