Pamela Bhattacharya is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft. Currently she is the tech lead for scheduling intelligence that powers the virtual scheduling assistant in Cortana, also known as Calendar.help. She is passionate about designing and engineering end to end user experiences powered by AI that can help users be more productive by helping them manage their time. She wears multiple hats in her current role - she has contributed as the developer/architect for the back-end workflows in the product, as well led the research and development in natural language understanding and designed ML techniques to personalize scheduling experience. Prior to joining Microsoft, she completed her PhD from University of California, Riverside.