Partner General Manager - Applied ML and ML Engineering
Microsoft
Kiran R is the Partner General Manager of Applied ML and ML Engineering in Microsoft. As part of Cloud + AI, he leads concept-to-completion Applied ML projects and ML engineering, building out the MLOps and MLaaS platforms. Leading global teams across Bangalore, Noida, Hyderabad, Israel and United States, he drives impact and innovation through cutting-edge solutions at the intersection of science and engineering at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he worked as a Senior Director in VMware and held leadership roles at Flipkart, Amazon and Dell.
Kiran has 23 granted/filed US patents, all in Applied ML and ML engineering. He is the recipient of the CTO Stars award at VMware and the “Innovator of the Year” award from Michael Dell in person at Dell. A computer science engineer, Kiran has a MBA from IIM Kozhikode and Ph.D. from IIM Lucknow. He has publications in Expert Systems & Applications journal, that is ranked in the top 5 ML/AI journals on Google scholar. Kiran is one of the ~100 Kaggle Competitions Grandmasters WW. He is a prize winner in the prestigious ACM KDD Data Mining Cup. He is passionate about ML, both at work and outside of it.