Sudha Rao
Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSudha Rao is a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research’s Natural Language Processing group with 11 years of experience bridging academic rigour and product-focused research. She leads work on applying large language models to narrative-rich games, exploring how players, creators, and generative AI can collaboratively evolve game stories over time. Her background includes a PhD from the University of Maryland and internships at Grammarly, NVIDIA, and ISI, giving her deep expertise in conversational modeling, style transfer, and semantic representations like AMR. Based in Bellevue, she combines long-term research vision with hands-on model development and a practical interest in interactive, emergent storytelling systems showcased on the MSR Emergence project page.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (16)
acl10
digital-humanities10
prefix10
linked-open-data10
speech9
in-progress9
speaker9
azure-cognitive-services9
microsoft-cognitive-services9
cognitive-services9
speech-to-text8
sdk8
pytorch6
speech-recognition6
microsoft5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
acl-org/acl-2020
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
ACL 2020 Website
Contributions:256 commits, 303 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
linked-open-dataacldigital-humanitiesprefix
raosudha89/clarification_question_generation_pytorch
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
Code and data for the paper: Answer-based Adversarial Training for Generating Clarification Questions
Contributions:24 commits, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
pytorchanswerdeep-learningadversarialadversarial-training
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