Sai Desai
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSai Desai is a Senior Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in applied ML, generative AI, and production-grade search systems. He has moved from academic research in semi-supervised object detection at IIT Hyderabad to industry roles building multimodal embeddings, rerankers, and Triton-served models for enterprise search at ServiceNow and now Microsoft. His background spans on-device ML for computer vision and NLP at Qualcomm, production stability testing on Android, and novel fusion of 2D/3D data for environmental sensing. Sai combines deep research instincts with pragmatic engineering—optimizing models for latency, robustness, and cross-modal retrieval at scale. Based in Hyderabad, he quietly bridges cutting-edge transformer research with hands-on deployment, with a knack for making search work across documents, images, tables and graphs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadBachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communication Engineering at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology
English, Telugu, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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1answer
6questions
Github Skills (11)
javascript9
deep-learning9
open-source9
pytorch6
machine-learning6
android-listview6
android6
android-fragments6
android-viewpager6
android-activity6
atom-plugin5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
svdesai/coreset-al
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
svdesai/heading-date-estimation
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Implementation of "Automatic Estimation of Heading Date of Paddy Rice using Deep Learning"
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 6 months
deep-learning
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