Akarsh Upadhyay
Applied Scientist 2 · Microsoft · IIT Jodhpur
I build ML systems where the solution becomes the foundation for what comes next. Right now at Microsoft, I work on Ads Trust & Safety — owning the end-to-end ML for a core ad policy: detection, measurement, and the infrastructure that determines whether enforcement is actually working across Search and Native platforms. Before moving into ATS, I spent a year and a half building retrieval models for ad selection: intent-based encoder models, evaluation frameworks, and the data pipelines behind it all.
Before that, I shipped AI features to millions of users at Zomato and researched text similarity at scale at Enterpret. I have a publication at ICDAR 2024 on document pretraining, and I studied Electrical Engineering at IIT Jodhpur.
What drives me is foundational work — the kind where getting it right unlocks progress for everyone who comes after.