Varad Bhatnagar
Applied Scientist 2 at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVarad Bhatnagar is an Applied Scientist specializing in aligning large language models with human preferences, currently improving Microsoft Enterprise Copilot within the Turing team after pivotal work on AI-for-code at IBM Research. Over nine years he has bridged research and productization—building training and evaluation pipelines for models up to 20B parameters, contributing to WatsonX Code Assistant, and filing multiple patents. His academic background (M.Tech, IIT Bombay) includes automated fact-checking and multimodal NLP, and he has published in venues like COLING and INTERSPEECH. Pragmatic yet research-driven, he combines deep systems engineering (distributed training, dynamic data mixing) with a focus on usable interactions such as generating engaging follow-up questions and tooling for reasoning and tool use.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, 9.17/10, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, 9.17/10 at Army Institute of Technology, Pune
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
python10
datasets10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
audio10
ai10
computer-vision10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
twitter-api10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
llm10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
varadhbhatnagar/Blockchain-Beginning
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 9 days
ethereumblockchain
varadhbhatnagar/Emoyto
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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