Harshit Mehta

Harshit Mehta

Senior Applied Scientist

RecSys | GenAI & Responsible AI

Building impactful AI solutions at Microsoft Viva | Kaggle Competitions Master

About Me

I'm a Senior Applied Scientist with deep expertise in machine learning, recommendation systems, and generative AI. At Microsoft Viva, I lead the development and large-scale deployment of GenAI features, driving cross-organizational collaborations to uphold Responsible AI practices.

I also spearhead the Ranked Comments platform, contributing to a 4% improvement in posts and comments creation. My prior work at Azure and Dell includes delivering impactful ML solutions—achieving $200M in cost savings, developing in-house NLP applications as search engine, QA and sentiment analysis. I'm passionate about leveraging AI to solve real-world problems and create meaningful social impact.

Featured Projects

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3rd - Feedback Prize Effectiveness (Kaggle)
Multi-Task Learning Transformers NLP

Custom T5 model with span-MLM pretraining, adversarial and multi-task learning for classifying essay effectiveness. Trained diverse set of transformer based models.

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Competition Certificate
Certificate - Feedback Prize

Official certificate for achieving 3rd place in the Feedback Prize Effectiveness Challenge.

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4th - Bitgrit Profile Matching
Recommender LightGBM Feature Engineering

Built multi-class swipe prediction model using permutation/null feature importance to optimize feature set. Leveraged lightgbm algorithm for model training.

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9th - Curriculum Recommendations (Kaggle)
Retriever-Ranker Transformers NLP

Built multilingual retriever-reranker pipeline with Inverse Cloze pretraining and ArcFace embedding ranking.

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Competition Certificate
Certificate - Curriculum Recommendations

Official certificate for achieving 9th place in the Learning Equality Curriculum Recommendations Challenge.

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9th - English Language Learning (Kaggle)
Multi-Output Regression Transformers NLP

Built Transformer based multi-output regressor. Leveraged techniques like Adversarial weight perturbation, auxillary loss and multi sample dropout.

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Competition Certificate
Certificate - English Language Learning

Official certificate for achieving 9th place in the English Language Learning Assessment Challenge.

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10th - US Patent Phrase Matching
QA Architecture Transformers NLP

Constructed patent phrase matching models using transformer-based encoders.

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Competition Certificate
Certificate - US Patent phase matching

Official certificate for achieving 10th place in the US Patent Phrase Matching Challenge.

Research & Patents

📄 AI for next generation computing: Emerging trends and future directions
(Cited 739)
Artificial Intelligence Next-Gen Computing Autonomic Systems

This comprehensive survey investigates the transformative potential of AI and machine learning in next-generation computing systems. The research explores how autonomic computing principles, inspired by the human nervous system, can enable self-managing systems that adapt to environmental changes without human intervention. The paper examines emerging computing paradigms including cloud, fog, edge, serverless, and quantum computing, identifying key challenges and opportunities for integrating AI/ML technologies to achieve autonomous resource management and performance optimization at scale.

Key Contributions:

  • • Comprehensive analysis of AI integration in emerging computing paradigms
  • • Framework for autonomic self-management using ML-driven feedback control
  • • Identification of critical research gaps in next-generation computing systems
  • • Strategic roadmap for AI-enhanced computing infrastructure development
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📄 Transformative effects of IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence on cloud computing: Evolution, vision, trends and open challenges
(Cited 592)
IoT Integration Blockchain Technology Cloud Computing

This groundbreaking systematic review explores the convergence of three transformative technologies—Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence—and their collective impact on cloud computing evolution. The research presents a comprehensive analysis of how this technological triumvirate addresses critical challenges in modern cloud systems, including energy consumption, security, reliability, and scalability. The study proposes a conceptual model for cloud futurology, examining how these emerging paradigms will reshape distributed computing architectures and enable next-generation applications across diverse domains.

Research Impact:

  • • First systematic review integrating IoT, Blockchain, and AI for cloud computing
  • • Novel conceptual framework for cloud computing evolution and futurology
  • • Comprehensive analysis of energy-efficient and secure cloud architectures
  • • Strategic insights for next-generation distributed computing systems
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🔒 Patent: Using machine learning to predict a usage profile and recommendations associated with a computing device
(Cited 31)
Machine Learning Usage Profiling Predictive Analytics Computing Devices

This innovative patent introduces a sophisticated machine learning framework for analyzing telemetry data from computing devices to predict usage profiles and generate intelligent recommendations. The system employs advanced ML algorithms to identify usage patterns, predict component failures, and provide cost-benefit analyses for warranty extensions, hardware upgrades, and device replacements. The technology enables proactive device management by analyzing resource utilization, performance metrics, and failure patterns to optimize user experience and reduce operational costs.

Commercial Applications:

  • • Predictive maintenance and failure prevention systems
  • • Intelligent warranty and service recommendation engines
  • • Hardware upgrade optimization and cost-benefit analysis
  • • Enterprise device lifecycle management platforms

Technical Innovation:

  • • ML-driven telemetry data analysis and pattern recognition
  • • Predictive modeling for component failure and usage profiling
  • • Automated recommendation system with cost-benefit optimization
  • • Real-time device monitoring and performance analytics
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Skills

Weekly Focus Areas

Prompting & LLM eval 40%
Recommender System 30%
AB experiments 20%
Responsible AI 10%

Resume

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