Sohan Patro (Microsoft Redmond)
Sohan Patro is a Software Engineer at Microsoft Redmond, with prior experience in the role of a Data Scientist while working at Microsoft Research. He is an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur alumnus with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He has been involved in several research projects in the course of his academia, including some in his research internships at ITRI, Taiwan, and Microsoft. He has also had research papers in venues like NAACL, ACL SocialNLP etc. He would love to share how his research interests started in academia and some pointers that may help make the most out of your research endeavours, his experiences in his research internships and his recent exposures to corporate research in Microsoft R&D, along with some of its pros and cons.