Kriti Faujdar

Kriti Faujdar has spent her career putting AI into places where failure is expensive. Today, that means agentic systems in applied ML at Yelp. Before Yelp, Kriti was a Senior Product Lead at Microsoft. There, she led the Security Foundation Model initiative and the Security AI fine-tuning program, building AI models for cybersecurity. Earlier at Microsoft, she was the founding product manager for Azure AI Foundry's Models-as-a-Service, which brought more than 50 foundation models from Meta, Mistral, Cohere and others to developers as pay-as-you-go APIs. Kriti began as a research scientist at ISRO, spending seven years on anomaly detection and autonomous operations across more than 20 satellite missions. She speaks on AI security and on running AI safely in production, mentors product managers, and reviews for AI research venues.