Rakshit Agrawal is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft with deep expertise in machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where his dissertation focused on generalized learning models for structured data. Rakshit has led AI research and development at start-ups, including Camio and Synthpop AI, and has held research roles at Microsoft and NVIDIA. His work spans AI, agentic systems, computer vision and technology for social good, with a track record of translating cutting-edge research into real-world products.