Sheshera Mysore
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSheshera Mysore is a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft with a decade of experience building personalized, user-controllable machine learning models, particularly in NLP and information retrieval. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and transitioned from a postdoc at Microsoft into her current role after extensive research on personalized writing assistance and fine-grained scientific document search. Her background spans industry research internships at AI2 and IBM as well as long-running projects extracting structured knowledge from millions of scientific papers, reflecting deep expertise in entity/event extraction and interpretable methods. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she blends rigorous academic research with product-focused model development, and is particularly interested in giving users agency over personalized models—an emphasis that shapes both her research and applied work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communication Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (12)
ranking9
information-retrieval8
react8
natural-language-processing8
computer-science8
science8
machine-learning7
deep-learning2
keras2
pdf1
tensorflow1
arxiv1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iesl/CSFCube
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 10 pushes in 9 months
allenai/aspire
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Repo for Aspire - A scientific document similarity model based on matching fine-grained aspects of scientific papers.
Contributions:38 commits, 23 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
document-similarityinformation-retrievalmachine-learningnatural-language-processing
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