Raja Anwar
Data Scientist II
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRaja Anwar is a Data Scientist II at Microsoft in Redmond with nine years of experience applying machine learning across healthcare, computer vision, NLP, media, and security domains. A PhD candidate researching security and privacy of autonomous and networked systems, he combines deep academic rigor with practical engineering—building Office AI agents and integrating Co-Pilot into Microsoft platforms. He has led multi-disciplinary teams and shipped production features from face-recognition login systems to OCR and recommender solutions, and has a track record of improving algorithmic efficiency (e.g., search from O(N) to O(log N)). Comfortable moving between research and product, Raja blends large-scale system thinking with hands-on model development and security-oriented threat analysis. Colleagues describe him as someone who “makes computers dance,” reflecting a knack for turning complex ML ideas into elegant, deployable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu, Punjabi, German
Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rhasnainanwar/SEECS-Academics-Club-MS
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 1 month
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rhasnainanwar/rhasnainanwar.github.io
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:281 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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