Sumit Asthana
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Asthana is a Senior Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of AI, cognitive science, and HCI, building Human-AI systems that support expert decision-making in professional domains. Currently at Microsoft and completing a PhD at the University of Michigan, he combines rigorous research—designing new NLP tasks and large-scale evaluations of LLMs—with practical product work such as meeting recap interfaces and developer tooling. His background includes multiple research internships at Google DeepMind and Microsoft and production software engineering at Arista, giving him rare fluency across experimentation, user studies, and systems implementation. A long-time Wikimedia contributor and Linux enthusiast, he brings open-source sensibilities and community mentorship into his research-driven approach.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at University of MichiganBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at IIT Patna
Github Skills (74)
mediawiki10
calculator10
wikipedia10
android-api10
editing10
scoring10
uwp10
php10
binary-classification10
inno-setup10
gerrit9
xaml9
windows9
fairness-ml9
collaborative-editing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codez266/codez266.github.io
Mar 2015 - Apr 2025
User Page
Contributions:3 PRs, 76 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 2 months
cssvueuser-page
codez266/revscoring
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
scoringmachine-learninggenericmediawiki
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