Utkarsh Garg
Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUtkarsh Garg is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft in Redmond with 11 years of experience building production NLP and AI systems, currently focused on agentic capabilities for Word Copilot. He progressed from data science and team leadership roles in India to graduate research in NLP at UC Santa Cruz, blending applied research with large-scale product delivery. Utkarsh excels at turning cutting-edge language models into reliable, user-facing features that integrate into enterprise productivity workflows. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research, engineering, and product priorities while mentoring cross-functional teams. Notably, his career path reflects a shift from electrical engineering foundations to leadership in applied AI, giving him a practical systems perspective on model deployment and user impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
St. Francis De Sales School, JanakpuriUniversity of California Santa CruzBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering
English, Hindi
Github Skills (55)
predict9
nlp8
contextual-embeddings8
bots8
retrieval7
facebook7
google-assistant7
gloss7
natural-language-processing7
dictionary7
voice7
dialogue-systems7
conversations7
thai7
bot-framework7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
UtkarshGarg-UG/Deep-Learning-Projects
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:110 commits, 106 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
kimkartavyavimudh/Speech
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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