Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh is a Senior Program Manager in Aether (AI, ethics, and effects in engineering and research -- part of the Office of Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft), where she works closely with the Office of Resposible AI on sensitive uses of AI and supports internal teams in implementing responsible AI. Forough's research background lies at the intersection and interaction of society, people, and AI and natural language systems. Her work examines how people create and explore datasets, train machine learning models, and make decisions with machine learning systems. Before starting this position, Forough was a postdoctoral researcher in the computational social science and FATE groups at MSR-NYC.
Beyond research, Forough has been interested and active with efforts on diversity and inclusion in computing. In 2019, she was a co-organizer of the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop at NeurIPS.
Forough holds a PhD in computer science with a focus on human-centered machine learning from University of Colorado Boulder and a BE in computer engineering from University of Tehran.
fpoursabzi AT microsoft DOT com
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