Hi, I'm Ashish Sharma

I’m a Senior Applied Scientist at the Microsoft Office of Applied Research, developing human-AI collaboration systems. My research advances ways to model the socio-cognitive intelligence of both humans and AI, combining techniques from natural language processing, reinforcement learning, data science, and psychology.

I earned my PhD from the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Tim Althoff. My dissertation received the 2024 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, an Honorable Mention for the 2025 ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the 2024 William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award. My research has been recognized with an outstanding paper award from ACL, the best paper award from The Web Conference, and the JP Morgan Chase AI Research PhD Fellowship. Demonstrating its real-world impact, my work has been deployed by Mental Health America.