Senior applied scientist at Microsoft, leading large-scale ML systems in auction and autobidding at Bing Ads. Work at the intersection of causal inference, reinforcement learning, and foundation models for large-scale recommender systems. 16 peer-reviewed publications at NeurIPS, AAAI, IEEE TBD, ACM RecSys. 2 granted US patents. Visiting Lecturer at Northeastern University (2021-2023).https://kaushal.us/https://kaushal.us/writing/hello-world/https://kaushal.us/writing/hello-world/First post on the new site. Short note on what I plan to write about — causal inference, reinforcement learning, foundation models, and the occasional dispatch from teaching.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT