# Anisha Agarwal

> ML Research Scientist - Microsoft

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anishaagarwal

Software engineer and ML/AI scientist at Microsoft

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer and Applied ML Scientist @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Platform Intern @ Botkeeper
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Creating a tool for accountants that automates the ingestion, comprehension, parsing and processing of PDF documents.
Working with a team of 3 interns to design, code, build and market the tool to the company’s clients.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ The MIT Quest for Intelligence
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Designed and implemented an algorithm to scrape the internet to build a dataset of images from museums across the world 
Built and cleaned dataset of over 200,000 images for use in GAN training in machine learning

### Computer Science Intern @ ThunderCat Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Reston, VA
Helped create an affordable software pipeline structure for processing and threat analysis of Palo Alto Firewall logs 
Pipeline used Confluent and the ELK Stack (Google’s open source data analysis platform consisting of Elastic, Logstash and Kibana) to make data accessible and understandable

### Researcher in Data Driven Inference Group @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Worked to create a machine learning algorithm to match keystroke and mouse click behavior with health and wellbeing factors such as stress and sleep deprivation.

### Computer Science Intern @ Fathom Information Design
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Designed an algorithm for sorting videos with machine learning based on edge detection. 
Parsed database of all Wikipedia articles and hit counts to create a back end basis for a visualization of article popularity over time

### Robotics and Computer Science Intern @ Humans to Robots Laboratory: Brown University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
Learned Emacs and the fundamentals of using a Baxter robot. 
Projects included programming the robot to localize objects via camera feed and autonomously bowl. Video at: http://h2r.cs.brown.edu/baxter-bowling/

### Summer Immersion Program Intern @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA
Selected as a participant in the country-wide annual summer program which teaches advanced computer programming to high school girls.
Learned the basics of programming languages such as Python, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Led a team in the creation of a data visualization website about domestic violence statistics among NFL players


## Education
### Masters in Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anisha-agarwal-544673171

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Last updated: 2026-03-23