Vamshi Krishna Thotempudi is a Senior Applied Data Scientist at Microsoft Security Research, working on AI/ML-driven automation, LLM-based security research, and cloud-scale threat detection. He has 13 years of experience across artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval, with prior roles as a Lead ML Engineer and Staff ML Engineer at IBM. His work has spanned production AI systems, AIOps, incident remediation, anomaly detection, speech and text analytics, model lifecycle/MLOps, and large-scale data processing.
He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. His professional contributions include granted U.S. patents, peer-reviewed publications, and applied research work across enterprise AI and cloud platforms. He has also served as a reviewer and program committee member for academic and industry venues.