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Deven Santosh Shah

Sr. Applied Scientist

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Deven is a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft. He specializes in the Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision domains. His current research at Microsoft is on improving the quality of local news by leveraging information extraction, entity typing, entity linking, user personalization techniques to name a few, which powers Microsoft News. Before joining Microsoft, he worked with Yahoo! Research on information extraction from text and videos in Yahoo Knowledge Graph which powered search and information organization in various products like Yahoo! Finance, Sports, entity search and browse. His efforts on creating a framework to determine the origin and the mitigation steps on Predictive Bias in the Natural Language Processing pipeline has been very beneficial to the NLP community.