Yokesh Kumar

Background

About Yokesh Kumar

13 years of experience in Microsoft AI developing E2E ML/Data Science solutions for web-scale problems in areas of Search, Recommendations, Visual Search and User/Content understanding. Track record of building ML solutions from scratch leveraging LLMs and Traditional-ML techniques. Experienced in setting up full ML lifecycle with building POC/demos, metrics, experiment design and feedback loop to iterate on models based on user feedback and usage patterns. Experienced in creating long-term AI and tech strategy with product team and senior leadership. • 5 years of experience as people manager of 15+ person teams comprising of Applied Scientists and Software Engineers at levels ranging from Principals to College hires and creating high-performing teams. Experience in working closely with teams across different countries and organizations. • Track record of developing many online/offline metrics leveraging human crowd labelers and LLMs to guide development. Experience in running web-scale A/B tests on Microsoft products like Bing and MSN. • Passionate about setting up best practice processes for improving planning/execution/culture and adopting modern LLM-based productivity tools. • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering