Riddhiman Dasgupta is a Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of experience applying deep learning to vision and language problems, currently leading multimodal search, recommendation, and revenue efforts for Bing Multimedia. He combines academic rigor from an MS by Research at IIIT Hyderabad—where his thesis explored multi-objective deep networks—with extensive production experience optimizing models for large-scale data, high throughput, and low latency. Riddhiman has driven end-to-end ML lifecycles from problem formulation and data labeling to deployment and A/B testing, and has a background in NLP and summarization from his time at IBM. Known for bridging research and engineering, he focuses on practical generative and multimodal solutions that improve query-image relevance in real-world search systems. Outside of work he blends technical curiosity with creative interests like science fiction and comic books, reflecting a preference for imaginative problem framing that often surfaces in novel model approaches.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, High School, Science at South Point High School
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Heritage Institute of Technology
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Riddhiman Dasgupta - Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft