Sarah Bird — CEO
Dr. Sarah Bird is the Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI at Microsoft. Sarah works to accelerate the adoption and positive impact of AI by bringing together the latest innovations in research, product and policy to enable the use of new AI technologies such as generative AI models. As an expert in responsible AI implementation, she contributes to the development and adoption of responsible AI principles, best practices, and technologies company-wide. Sarah led the cross-company team of experts to develop the new Bing responsibly. Sarah led the Responsible AI development for Github Copilot. Sarah led the product development of responsible AI tools including Fairlearn, SmartNoise and InterpretML. She is an active member of the Microsoft AETHER committee and contributed to the creation of the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard. Sarah was one of the founding researchers in the Microsoft FATE research group. Sarah is active contributor to the open source ecosystem, she co-founded ONNX, Fairlearn and OpenDP's SmartNoise and was a leader in the Pytorch 1.0 and InterpretML projects. She was an early member of the machine learning systems research community and has been active in growing and forming the community. She co-founded the MLSys research conference and the Learning Systems workshops. She has a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley advised by Dave Patterson, Krste Asanovic, and Burton Smith.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Responsible AI and SaaS product development.
Location: New York, New York, United States
Experience: 21 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Responsible Ai
- Product Development
- Operating Systems
- Software Engineering
Career Highlights
- Led responsible AI initiatives at Microsoft.
- Co-founded key AI tools and frameworks.
- Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Computer Science.
Work Experience
Microsoft
Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI (7 yrs 3 mos)
Technical Advisor (10 mos)
Postdoctoral Researcher (2 yrs 9 mos)
Research Intern (4 mos)
Research Intern (4 mos)
Research Intern (4 mos)
Technical Program Manager (1 yr 8 mos)
New York University
MSR-CUSP Postdoc (8 mos)
Platforms Software Engineering Intern (3 mos)
UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Researcher (6 yrs 1 mo)
University of Texas at Austin
Research Assistant (0 mo)
IBM
Intern/Co-op (2 yrs 7 mos)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science (M.S.) at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at The University of Texas at Austin