Dr. Sadid Hasan, PhD - AI Lead, Microsoft - Developing Transformational AI Leaders For Global Impact

Dr. Sadid Hasan, Ph.D. ( http://sadidhasan.com/ ), is AI Lead at Microsoft, and member of the leadership team in Microsoft's AI Development Acceleration Program (MAIDAP) at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD AI) center ( https://www.microsoftnewengland.com/maidap/ ).

Dr. Hasan leads teams to drive the state-of-the-art in AI by developing advanced AI capabilities, products, and solutions applicable across the enterprise, as well as growing the next generation of AI leaders who can make a transformational impact to the world.

Previously, Dr. Hasan was an Executive Director of AI at CVS Health, where he led the team responsible for AI-based clinical care planning initiatives. Prior to that, he was a Senior Scientist and Technical Lead of the AI Group at Philips Research North America, where he focused on solving various Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems such as Clinical Information Extraction, Clinical Question Answering, Natural Language Inference, Paraphrase Generation, and Medical Image Caption Generation using Deep Learning.

Before joining Philips, Dr. Hasan was an NSERC-Engage Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge, Canada, from where he obtained his PhD. in Computer Science with a specialization in NLP and Machine Learning.

Dr. Hasan has over 12 granted patents along with 35+ patents pending, and 80+ peer-reviewed publications in top-tier NLP/Machine Learning venues, where he also regularly serves in the program committees, including ACL, EMNLP, COLING, NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, ICLR, NAACL, EACL, JAIR, AI Journal, Nature etc.