Karishma Sanghvi Karishma Sanghvi joined Microsoft in 2016 as a data scientist for Windows Active Defense. Her work involves finding and anticipating trends in the threat landscape in order to improve Defender's protection capabilities. Her recent focus has been the design of real-time detection algorithms for malware outbreaks. Before her life in security, she was a data scientist in product marketing and customer analytics at Accenture. Karishma holds a Master's degree from Cornell University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, both with a focus in operations research.