Tanvi Dadu is a Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft with eight years of engineering and research experience spanning full-stack software development and NLP. She holds an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech from NSIT, and has moved from software engineering roles at Salesforce to applied science internships and research collaborations with IBM. Her work bridges production systems (Java, Spring, Postgres, Android) and machine learning, with 5+ papers in international NLP/AI venues and a published W-NUT/EMNLP workshop paper on text simplification for QA. An active open-source contributor and former Google Summer of Code scholar, she contributed notable UX and mapping improvements to the widely used Wikimedia Commons Android app. Colleagues describe her as a practical researcher who ships end-to-end features while keeping a strong focus on language understanding and user-facing quality.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Apeejay Stya Education (Svran Foundation)
Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Sciences General, Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Sciences General at University of Pennsylvania
The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:38 commits, 26 PRs, 159 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tanvi primarily contributed to the Wikimedia Commons Android app by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the user interface and app functionality. Their work included hiding the keypad when interacting with text input fields, adding an explicit mention of the beta server to the login screen, and revamping the tutorial/welcome screen. Further contributions involved removing unnecessary labels, adding map functionality, and implementing image zoom capabilities.
Contributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 months
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