Raja Anwar
Data Scientist II
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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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 (16)
jekyll5
data-science5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
neural-network4
jekyll-theme4
git-remote3
sac3
mysql2
database2
cloud-computing2
pytorch1
open-source1
swift1
ios1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KhwarizmiLab/KhwarizmiLab.github.io
Apr 2023 - Jun 2026
Khwarizmi Lab website
Contributions:161 pushes in 3 years 2 months
rhasnainanwar/SEECS-Academics-Club-MS
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 1 month
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