Deepak Panda

About Deepak Panda

o Currently employed as “Senior Data and Applied ML Scientist” @ Microsoft India…

Experience

1. Sr Data & Applied Ml Scientist

   Microsoft

   Feb 2022 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN

   I work as part of the core ML team at Microsoft Designer, contributing from the product’s inception.Key Responsibilities:• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand user and business requirements, and define ML solutions for the use case.• Evaluate open-source and proprietary models after securing necessary approvals, and benchmark them for performance and feasibility.• Train custom models when off-the-shelf options do not meet quality standards, ensuring datasets are approved for commercial use.• Ensure compliance with Responsible AI (RAI) processes before integrating models into production.• Integrate models into production, conduct A/B testing, and actively monitor their performance post-launch.Models and Features I Work On:• Auto Image Enhancement – Automatically improve visual quality with ML-based adjustments.• Face Detection – Enable intelligent cropping, personalization, and layout features.• Background Removal – Isolate foreground and remove backgrounds with high precision.• Single Person Object Detection – Detect and highlight individual users in an image.• Distracting Object Detection – Identify and flag visual clutter or distracting elements in photos to improve composition and design focus.• Copilot Stories – Create multi-page visual stories by prompting LLM with user inputs and context.

Education

• National Institute of Technology Rourkela

  Master of Technology (M.Tech.)

  2010 — 2012

• National Institute of Technology Rourkela

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  2012 — 2017