Pareesa Golnari
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPareesa Golnari is a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft in Bellevue focused on improving developer productivity through AI, ML, and evaluation of large language models, with a particular emphasis on advancing GitHub Copilot. With a PhD from Princeton and a background accelerating deep learning hardware and software at Google and Microsoft, she blends rigorous research with production-minded engineering. Her recent work in DeepSpeed targets faster, higher-quality diffusion model training and inference, reflecting deep expertise in scaling generative models. She thrives on creative problem-solving and bringing novel ML techniques into developer tools, often tackling latency and quality trade-offs overlooked in product settings. Though early in tenure as a senior researcher, her trajectory spans hardware acceleration to model optimization, giving her a rare end-to-end view of ML system performance. Located in Bellevue, she combines academic depth with practical impact on tools millions of developers rely on.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering/ Computer Area, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering/ Computer Area at Princeton University
English, Persian
Github Skills (3)
deepspeed10
pytorch9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
PareesaMS/DS-diffusers-lora
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 91 branches in 27 days
PareesaMS/imagenet-original
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 45 branches in 1 day
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