Jay Prakash Thakur is a Senior AI/ML Engineer at Microsoft in Mountain View, California, building agentic AI systems. He chairs IEEE Working Group P7804, which is developing the recommended practice for integrated agentic AI systems to reduce food waste in schools. Previously a Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon, he specializes in AI agents, multi-agent systems, LLMs, deep learning, and NLP. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington and completed a business program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.