Vikram Dendi

Director, Microsoft Research

Vikrams work at Microsoft Research focuses on
translating research into applications, building
alliances across companies and organizations, and
incubating innovative projects. He currently heads
Product Management & Business Strategy for
Microsofts Machine Translation technology group.
In this role, he's helped bring Microsoft's natural
language research both to highly visible projects
(Bing Translator, the worlds largest social network, and the bestselling
reading device) and to unique innovations (rapidly building technological
solutions to assist during disasters, tackling the language inequality of
Wikipedia content, helping to preserve languages that are slowly
disappearing).
Vikram studied Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech), and was awarded an NSF Entrepreneurial Fellowship after
graduation which helped support his first startup. Previously, Vikram has
been involved in starting an emerging markets innovation incubation group
within Microsoft, held strategy, marketing & engineering leadership roles at
Microsoft and Real Networks, and worked at Walker Digital as an invention
analyst and technical assistant to the founder of Priceline. He splits his time
between Seattle and San Francisco, and mentors several young
entrepreneurs in both startup communities. He loves sci-fi, chess and
squash.