Pratyusha Sharma is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and an incoming Assistant Professor at the Courant Institute and the Center for Data Science at New York University. She did her PhD at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. She studies the interplay between language, sequential decision making and intelligence in natural and AI systems. Her research is published in interdisciplinary journals like Nature Communications, etc. and in academic conferences across machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, and marine biology. Her research has also been featured in articles in the New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, BBC, etc. She was recently a speaker at TED AI and was selected as a Rising Star in EECS, Data Science, and GenAI.