Anirudh Koul is a senior data scientist at Microsoft AI and Research. An entrepreneur at heart, he has been running a mini-startup team within Microsoft, prototyping ideas using computer vision and deep learning techniques for augmented reality, productivity, and accessibility, building tools for communities with visual, hearing, and mobility impairments. Anirudh brings a decade of production-oriented applied research experience on petabyte-scale social media datasets, including Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Answers, Quora, Foursquare, and Bing. A regular at hackathons, he has won close to three dozen awards, including top-three finishes for three years consecutively in the world’s largest private hackathon, with 16,000 participants. Some of his recent work, which IEEE has called “life changing,” has been showcased at a White House AI event, Netflix, and National Geographic and to the Prime Ministers of Canada and Singapore.