Sameera Lanka
Machine Learning Scientist 2 at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSameera Lanka is a Machine Learning Scientist at Microsoft with eight years of experience bridging ML research and production engineering for Office AI. She moved from an AI Residency at Microsoft Research into product-focused roles, applying deep learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning to real-world problems in productivity, robotics, and medical imaging. Her academic work includes MS-level research on interpretable visual modeling and deep RL for continuous control, and internships tackling 3D medical image analysis and optimized convolution implementations. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and engineering, she combines rigorous experimental methods with practical system optimizations to ship scalable ML features. Based in Redmond, she brings a multidisciplinary background from EEE to applied ML and a consistent thread of translating complex models into deployable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityNational Public School, IndiranagarBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (9)
deterministic7
gradient5
deep-learning4
pytorch4
char3
haskell2
transformer2
language-model1
oracle1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samlanka/DDPG-PyTorch
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient implemented in PyTorch for DeepMind Control Suite
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
pytorchdeep-deterministic-policy-gradientpolicydeep-learningdeepmind
samlanka/oracle
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Haskell prototype of the Search Transformer and Universal Oracle
Contributions:16 pushes in 18 days
oracleprototypehaskelltransformer
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