Varun Jain
Applied Scientist II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Jain is an Applied Scientist II at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building production computer-vision systems, currently focused on bringing state-of-the-art temporal segmentation to Microsoft Teams and cutting error rates by up to 20%. He blends rigorous research and engineering—proposing novel regularization, consistency metrics, and loss functions—to move models from lab prototypes into production at scale. Prior roles include research stints at Facebook Reality Labs on photorealistic bidirectional telepresence and a strong academic foundation from CMU (MS in Computer Vision) and IIIT-Delhi, where he also taught and mentored. Varun’s background spans edge-friendly deep models for AR, on-device gesture recognition, and startup product work in air-quality sensing, reflecting a knack for translating research into practical, resource-constrained products. He often leverages self-supervised and analysis-by-synthesis techniques to make models robust to real-world variation—a recurring thread that boosts performance in both VR avatars and Teams segmentation. Based in Seattle, he combines cross-disciplinary curiosity with a track record of measurable production impact.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, EECS, dropped out, Master of Engineering - MEng, EECS, dropped out at University of California, BerkeleyClass XII, Science, 96%, Class XII, Science, 96% at Delhi Public School, GurgaonBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 9.37. Dean’s list., Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 9.37. Dean’s list. at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, DelhiMaster of Science - MS, Computer Vision, 4.11, Master of Science - MS, Computer Vision, 4.11 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (37)
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
stratum9
neural-network8
data-science8
simulator7
assembly7
electrical-engineering7
ml7
monero7
deep-neural-networks7
proxy6
arm5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
varunj/ARMSim
Jul 2015 - Oct 2019
A functional simulator for ARM assembly programs
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
arm-assemblysimulatorprogramsassemblyarm
varunj/EgoGestAR
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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