Varshil Gandhi is a Senior ML Scientist with eight years of experience building production-scale deep learning systems, most recently leading short-text relevance and Transformer-based matching models for ad retrieval at Microsoft and now AirMDR. He specializes in NLP, LLMs, knowledge distillation, and cross/bi-encoder architectures that power first-stage query-keyword matching and ranking billions of text pairs. A product-minded researcher from IIT Guwahati, Varshil blends rigorous research (internships at MILA, Intel, IIT Madras) with engineering discipline to ship robust, scalable, and reusable solutions. He has a track record of improving model generalization in vision and language tasks and applies structural biases and distillation techniques to make state-of-the-art models practical at scale.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 9.23, Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 9.23 at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching, 99.95 percentile in 10th standard State Boards, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching, 99.95 percentile in 10th standard State Boards at BVBs Narmada Vidhyalaya
High School, Rank 7 in Gujarat State Board List among 0.2 million students, High School, Rank 7 in Gujarat State Board List among 0.2 million students at Navrachana Vidhyani Vidhyalaya
An Automated Library Bot to help keep the Lakshminath Bezbaroa Library, IIT Guwahati arranged.
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