Sarah Bird

CEO

New York, New York, United States21 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led responsible AI initiatives at Microsoft.
  • Co-founded key AI tools and frameworks.
  • Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Computer Science.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Responsible AI and SaaS product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Responsible AiProduct DevelopmentOperating SystemsSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Generative AIAI PrinciplesBest PracticesFairlearnSmartNoiseInterpretMLResource AllocationManycore Operating SystemsPerformance AnalysisDesign for TestFunctional Design VerificationParallel ComputingCloud ComputingEntrepreneurshipMobile Devices

About

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.

Experience

21 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

6 roles

Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI

Promoted

Feb 2019Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Responsible AIProduct DevelopmentGenerative AIAI PrinciplesBest Practices

Technical Advisor

Promoted

Jul 2016May 2017 · 10 mos

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sep 2013Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Research Intern

May 2012Sep 2012 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Research Intern

May 2011Sep 2011 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Research Intern

Jun 2010Oct 2010 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Researching resource allocation in manycore operating systems
Resource AllocationManycore Operating SystemsOperating Systems

Facebook

Technical Program Manager

May 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

New york university

MSR-CUSP Postdoc

Sep 2013May 2014 · 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Google

Platforms Software Engineering Intern

May 2008Aug 2008 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Working in the Platforms Group on performance analysis
Performance AnalysisSoftware Engineering

Uc berkeley

Graduate Student Researcher

Aug 2007Sep 2013 · 6 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

University of texas at austin

Research Assistant

Jan 2007Jan 2007 · 0 mo

Ibm

Intern/Co-op

Jan 2005Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Design for Test and functional design verification on the XBox360 and P7 designs
Design for TestFunctional Design VerificationSoftware Engineering

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2014

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2010

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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