I am a Data Scientist at Microsoft Corporation. My area of expertise lies in machine learning, statistics and applications, particularly in probabilistic graphical models, unsupervised learning, and optimization algorithms. I conceived and implemented several novel probabilistic models for statistical machine learning. In my career, I engineered solutions to problems in computer vision, natural language processing, information retrieval, multimedia and computational biology. I have published award-winning papers in prestigious peer-reviewed conference and top journals in all the fields I have worked in to date. Specialties: Statistical machine learning, classification, regression, probabilistic graphical models in particular for vision and text analysis, time-series models, optimization methods, unsupervised learning.