Sarthika Dhawan is a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where she has worked with a variety of technologies and teams. She is actively involved in the software development and research community, and has authored and presented a conference paper at IJCAI 2019. She is an ACM-W and AICTE-INAE scholarship recipient and has attended various conferences like GHCI and IJCAI. She has given technical talks, provided mentorships and volunteered as a tutor at NGOs to educate economically less fortunate kids in various disciplines. She has participated in multiple hackathons as she believes that’s an amazing way to keep yourself involved and updated.