Sumit Gulwani is a renowned computer scientist with an impressive background spanning multiple computer science areas. He is the inventor of the widely used Flash Fill feature in Excel and has developed several other intent-understanding, programming-by-example, and programming-by-natural-language technologies. His work in this area enables computer users to create scripts to automate repetitive tasks, providing a significant productivity increase for data scientists, business users, and developers. He has shipped high-quality implementations of cutting-edge research through multiple Microsoft products, including Office, Visual Studio, SQL, Powershell, and PowerQuery, impacting the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Sumit holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He has 125+ research publications in top-tier conferences and has delivered 50+ keynotes/invited talks. At Microsoft, he is a Partner Research Manager and has led diverse teams of researchers and engineers working on scientific advancements relevant to the company's corporate goals.

Sumit has received several prestigious awards, including the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the President's Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur. He is a sought-after speaker at various forums and has been invited to speak at academic and industrial conferences, workshops, University colloquiums, and summer/winter schools.