Principal Research Engineer

Microsoft Research

Shital is Research Engineer at Microsoft Research with interests in deep learning and reinforcement learning. His previous works includes co-authoring machine-learned clustering system for web-scale data that powered parts of Bing and co-founding the team. In 2017, he authored AirSim, a physically and visually realistic cross-platform simulator for AI research. In 2018, he authored TensorWatch, a new approach for debugging training and visualization of vision models. More recently he co-authored Archai, a platform for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) that has produced the tiny Transformer based models powering the text completition feature in Microsoft Office. Currently, he is working on math and code generation models with goal towards achieving perfect reasoning.

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Recent Posts

Git Workflow: Branch - Rebase - Squash - Merge

So you want to make a change to your git repo while other people may also be simultaneously working on the same repo. As it takes you longer to make your changes, there is a greater chance that your local repo might already be out of date as other people have pushed their changes.

Feb 26, 2017 6 min read Developers

Writing Generic Container Functions in C++11

Let’s say we want to write function to append one vector to another. It can be done like, template<typename T> void append(Vector<T>& to, const Vector<T>& from) { to.insert(to.end(), from.begin(), from.end()); } One problem with this approach is that we can only use this function with Vector.

Jun 5, 2016 3 min read Uncategorized

How to use Windows network share from domain joined machine on Linux

I’m seeing lot of websites with bit outdated or incomplete instructions. So here are the full steps that works for Ubuntu 14 for mounting Windows network file share on Ubuntu through active directory domain account:

Jun 3, 2016 2 min read Uncategorized

How to Enable and Use GCC Strict Mode Compilation

One of the great feature that many C++ programmers rarely use is GCC strict mode compilation. Enabling this lets compiler warn you about any potential issues that might often get unnoticed in build noise.

May 24, 2016 5 min read Developers

Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments

Introduction There are two files that contains all stories and comments posted at Hacker News from its start in 2006 to May 29, 2014 (exact dates are below). This was downloaded using simple program available I wrote Hacker News Downloader by making REST API calls to HN’s official APIs.

May 31, 2014 4 min read Developers, Software