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sumitgulwani

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About sumitgulwani

Sumit Gulwani is a computer scientist connecting ideas, research & practice, and (with) people with varied roles. He invented the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel and has shipped program synthesis innovations across multiple Microsoft products including Office, Visual Studio, PowerQuery, PowerApps, Powershell, and SQL. He has co-authored 10 award-winning papers (including 3 test-of-time awards from ICSE and POPL) amongst 135+ research publications across multiple computer science areas and delivered 50+ keynotes/invited talks. He is a recipient of the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (PhD from UC-Berkeley), and President’s Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur.

Twitter handle: @sumitgulwani

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    Comment #28588397

    I absolutely agree with you! The next version of Flash Fill that we are aspiring to build will not only handle a much larger class of transformations, but will hopefully also show …

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    Comment #28588331

    Thank you for your feedback. I would love to get more insights into your use cases---we can use them as inspiration as we continue to improve the technology in this space. Please f…

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    Comment #28588137

    You would have to give multiple examples, at least one for each "different kind" of name (for which you would have programmed a different handling logic if you were programming the…

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    Comment #28588108

    Our program synthesis APIs are available publicly, but for non-commercial use only. https://github.com/microsoft/prose > You want to look for API samples corresponding to Transform…

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    Comment #28588010

    Yes, text to Columns would work well for splitting tasks in a very uniform dataset. However, if you want to extract say Lastname from a column containing names some of which may ha…

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    Comment #28587965

    Cool find! The 100-second video segment starting at 10:43 in this link that I am sharing would be more fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421gU482xFE&t=643s >

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    Comment #28587915

    Here's an illustrative demo of the Flash Fill capability. Check out the 3 minute video segment starting at 4:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1YXge3C8RI&t=270s >