Summary
Yasharth Bajpai is a researcher at Microsoft PROSE with eight years of experience building AI-powered tools that improve software engineering workflows, specializing in AI-for-code spanning editing, repair, review, and evaluation. He blends neural and symbolic approaches to translate applied research into end-to-end developer tooling that ships in production, drawing on a background of software roles at startups and major companies. An IIT Kanpur EE-CSE graduate and recipient of a "Best Software Award" for work now integrated into Visual Studio, he bridges programming languages, software engineering, and machine learning. At Microsoft he progressed from research fellow to researcher, contributing to projects that target real developer productivity gains. Beyond CS, he brings cross-disciplinary interests in linguistics, economics, and finance that inform a pragmatic, human-centered view of automated code assistance. Based in Bengaluru, he actively seeks collaborations that turn research insights into usable developer experiences.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
ISC, ISC at City Montessori School