Kriti Faujdar

I work in applied machine learning at Yelp, where I build agentic AI systems. Before that, I was a Senior Product Lead at Microsoft, where I led work on foundation models for cybersecurity and was the founding product manager for Azure AI Foundry's Models-as-a-Service, which made more than20 third-party models, including Meta Llama, Mistral, and Cohere, available as pay-as-you-go APIs. I started my career as a research scientist at ISRO, India's space agency, where I spent seven years on more than 20 satellite missions building anomaly detection and autonomous spacecraft operation systems. Most of my work has been on AI that has to hold up when failure is expensive. I can comment on AI agents, AI security, foundation models, AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems. I a...