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Doran Chakraborty

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Partner GM at Microsoft
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Doran is a Managing Partner at Microsoft AI, leading initiatives in Natural Language Processing and Generative AI. With a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Texas at Austin, he has a significant background in search, deep learning, and question answering, and is currently advancing large and small language models for Copilot.

Outside of his professional work, Doran shows an interest in making complex scientific concepts accessible. He enjoys pondering physics in his spare time and recommends educational content that explains topics like space-time curvature in simple, intuitive terms, particularly for children.

His PhD thesis on multiagent learning was published as a book.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Partner GM
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Generative AI Search
He leads the teams developing agentic workflows and models for Microsoft's Copilot search services and recently announced the launch of Copilot Search.
Language Model Development
Actively hiring practitioners to advance state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs), including releasing new models like MAI-DS-R1.
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Work history

8-2022
Partner GM
Microsoft
2017 - 8-2022
Principal Science Manager
Microsoft
10-2012 - 8-2017
Senior/Principal IC
Microsoft
8-2007 - 7-2012
PhD
The University of Texas at Austin
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PhD
The University of Texas at Austin
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