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Rangan Majumder
Vice President of Search and Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft
Rangan Majumder is Vice President of Search and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. Majumder's Microsoft Research page describes the team's mission as reducing the friction between a person's information need and knowledge found in images, documents, and videos, applying language, vision, and multimodal understanding to search, personal assistants, and productivity applications. Majumder is a co-author of the 2016 paper introducing MS MARCO, a large machine reading comprehension dataset built from questions sampled from Bing search query logs.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Vice President of Search and Artificial Intelligence
- Company
- Microsoft
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Language models, Datasets and data
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 2
- Profile reviewed
Career
Majumder's Microsoft Research page lists the role of Vice President of Search and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, with a team applying language, vision and multimodal understanding to build search, personal assistants and productivity applications.1
Research
Majumder co-authored the 2016 paper introducing MS MARCO, a machine reading comprehension dataset of anonymized questions sampled from Bing search logs, paired with human-generated answers and passages from web documents. Majumder's research areas on the Microsoft Research site are artificial intelligence, computer vision, human language technologies, and search and information retrieval.21
Work and contributions
Timeline
- Co-authored the paper introducing the MS MARCO machine reading comprehension dataset.2
Where they work
- Microsoft 75 people in the wiki
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2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026