Simra Shahid
AI Researcher II at Microsoft
India
Summary
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Top SchoolSimra Shahid is an AI researcher with eight years of experience bridging applied machine learning and foundational AI research, currently at Microsoft Research Prose. She has led impactful projects across industry and academia—building a novelty-checker for research ideas in Scideator (ACL 2025 Best Paper, Scholarly Document Processing) and developing RegText, a method to make text datasets "unlearnable" to protect proprietary content from LLM memorization. Her background includes research and product roles at Adobe, visiting positions at Ai2 and University of Virginia, and hands-on engineering early in her career, giving her a rare blend of product-minded experimentation and rigorous evaluation. Based in India, she focuses on retrieval + prompting strategies, privacy-preserving datasets, and tooling that accelerates trustworthy AI discovery. Colleagues describe her work as both practically deployable and research-forward, with a knack for turning novel ideas into validated systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship Training, Entrepreneurship Training at Sprott School of Business at Carleton UniversityBachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Delhi College of EngineeringHigh School, High School at Delhi Public School, Doha
Github Skills (2)
large-language-models3
jekyll2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
simra-shahid/simra-shahid.github.io
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Portfolio - https://simra-shahid.github.io (Working on it!)
Contributions:256 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
reactworking-oncssjavascriptreactjs
simra-shahid/hyhtm
May 2023 - Jul 2024
HyHTM - Hyperbolic based hierarchical topic model
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
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