Sumit Asthana
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Asthana is a Senior Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of AI, cognitive science, and HCI, building Human-AI systems that support expert decision-making in professional domains. Currently at Microsoft and completing a PhD at the University of Michigan, he combines rigorous research—designing new NLP tasks and large-scale evaluations of LLMs—with practical product work such as meeting recap interfaces and developer tooling. His background includes multiple research internships at Google DeepMind and Microsoft and production software engineering at Arista, giving him rare fluency across experimentation, user studies, and systems implementation. A long-time Wikimedia contributor and Linux enthusiast, he brings open-source sensibilities and community mentorship into his research-driven approach.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at University of MichiganBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at IIT Patna
Github Skills (44)
mediawiki10
artificial-intelligence10
wikipedia10
uwp10
android-api10
xaml9
windows9
csharp9
php9
collaborative-editing9
cpp9
gerrit8
wikimedia8
machine-learning8
fastapi7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
codez266/codez266.github.io
Mar 2015 - Apr 2025
User Page
Contributions:3 PRs, 87 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 2 months
cssvueuser-page
codez266/revscoring
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
scoringmachine-learninggenericmediawiki
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