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 College2011, 2011 at Cluny 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 (34)
ai10
foundation-models10
evaluation-framework10
artificial-intelligence9
llm9
python9
machine-learning9
google9
deep-learning8
neural-network7
gpu7
tensorflow7
softmax7
crf7
lstm6
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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