Vidhisha Balachandran
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVidhisha Balachandran is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research’s AI Frontiers team with 13 years of industry and academic experience building trustworthy, reliable, and adaptable AI systems. She holds advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and completed a PhD in NLP focused on factual, interpretable, and robust text generation, translating those research insights into rigorous model evaluation and mitigation strategies. Her background spans scalable ML engineering—experience at Flipkart building low-latency scoring systems—and cutting-edge research internships at Google and AI2 working on long-document representation and open-domain QA. Vidhisha is skilled at bridging theory and production: she designs comprehensive evaluation suites for safety, fairness, and reliability while also developing practical mitigation techniques. Based in Seattle, she combines deep NLP expertise with systems-minded engineering approaches, and often leverages explanations and factual grounding to improve model robustness in real-world settings.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Pre University, Pre University at VVS Sardar Patel Pre-University CollegeCluny Convent High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering at PES Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (44)
artificial-intelligence9
python9
machine-learning9
ai9
deep-learning9
evaluation-framework9
crf8
gpu8
tensorflow8
llm8
google8
neural-network8
data-science7
semantics7
softmax7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vidhishanair/academic-kickstart
Nov 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:57 pushes in 5 years 3 months
vidhishanair/structured-text-representations
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:68 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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