Vishal Anand
Senior Applied Scientist at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Anand is a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building production NLP and large-language-model solutions across Office 365, Azure, and Microsoft Research, earning four promotions in three years. He holds an MS in Computer Science (ML/NLP) from Columbia and a BTech from IIT Guwahati, and his work spans real-time LLM generation, long-tailed conversational research, multimodal grounding, and smart-reply systems. Vishal combines research rigor with product impact—contributing to patents, mentoring MSR projects, and collaborating across MSR, Azure, O365, and academia. Early career roles in finance, payments, and platform engineering (Goldman, Visa, Uber) gave him strong quantitative and systems foundations that he applies to scalable ML deployments. Notably, he has bridged research and engineering repeatedly—moving ideas from temporal sentiment and multimodal papers into production-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMasters, Computer Science : ML | NLP, 3.84/4, Masters, Computer Science : ML | NLP, 3.84/4 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkSenior Secondary School, Science with Computer Science, 92.2%, Senior Secondary School, Science with Computer Science, 92.2% at Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City.Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), Science, 93.71%, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), Science, 93.71% at Saint Lawrence School TentoloiBig Data, Big Data at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Odia
Github Skills (17)
geotrellis10
solve10
geospatial10
geographic10
gis10
data-processing9
high-performance9
javascript7
curl7
python7
programming-language6
image-segmentation3
segmentation3
computer-vision3
pytorch2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vishalanand/Writer-Identification-System
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
vishalanand/mt-dnn
Sep 2019 - Jul 2024
Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 11 months
nlpmulti-tasknatural-language-understandingunderstandingdeep-learning
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