Dr. Ashish Kapoor is the General Manager for the Autonomous Systems Research Group at Microsoft, where he focuses on building intelligent and autonomous flying agents using pre-training of deep models and data-driven simulation. He holds a PhD from MIT, with his current areas of research including machine learning, quantum computation and computer vision. He is also an avid aviator, holding a FAA Commercial Pilot certificate (SEL) and FAA Flight Instructor certificate (Airplane Single Engine and Instrument Airplane), and is an active amateur aircraft builder of an RV-8 Aircraft. He holds a PhD from MIT.