Sharad Agarwal
Building AI systems | Senior Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research | ACM Distinguished Engineer
I am building AI systems at Microsoft, including a multi-agent AI system for automating SaaS incident management, AI model selection and routing, automatic debugging for multi-agent AI calls, and media provenance for AI training and inference. Previously, I used AI+ML to solve challenging scale problems in Azure, built a scalable cloud service on Azure that served over 21 million Windows 10 users, and optimized the Windows Phone 8 networking stack.
I am an ACM Distinguished Engineer. I am an inventor on over 100 issued patents. I have authored over 45 academic publications with over 9,000 citations and an H-index of 45. I have served on over 60 academic committees.
I am an angel investor in over 20 startups, some having graduated from Y Combinator, and raised capital from large VC firms. I have mentored and invested in startup founders through Grubstakes and other groups in Seattle.
You can find out more about me and contact me via my LinkedIn profile.