Sadid Hasan
AI Lead at Microsoft
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- Member of the leadership team in Microsoft's AI Development Acceleration Program under Office of the CTO, driving state-of-the-art in AI by developing advanced AI capabilities, products, and solutions across the enterprise (Office M365 and Azure AIOps Copilots), and growing the next generation of AI leaders for transformational impact to the world; recently recognized as one of the 100 most influential AI leaders in the USA. More details at: https://www.sadidhasan.com - Two decades of AI research and product development experience in the areas of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning with a competitive mindset; built new competencies within teams towards contributing significant values to businesses via participating in 40+ external and internal NLP/AI challenges and competitions with top-ranked results. - Notable achievements include pioneering research contributions on generative AI including complex question answering, question decomposition, neural paraphrase generation, topic to question generation, and query-focused multi-document summarization; dependent reading for natural language inference, clinical diagnosis inference using memory networks & deep reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning for question answering with human in the loop; ~100 publications in top NLP/machine learning conferences, 34 granted patents, 30+ patents pending. - Well-recognized thought leader in AI, NLP, and machine learning research and business communities; regular program committee member of all major top-tier NLP/machine learning academic conferences, frequent invited/keynote speaker at the top deep learning/data science industry-academia conferences, founding organizer of the ImageCLEF medical domain VQA and VQG challenge. Previously: - Executive Director of Artificial Intelligence at CVS Health; led the teams responsible for developing and delivering advanced AI-enabled clinical care planning and automation initiatives. - Technical Lead of the AI Group for clinical AI/NLP R&D projects related to information extraction & retrieval, knowledge representation & reasoning, question answering, natural language inference, paraphrase generation, text classification, medical image caption generation etc. using advanced deep learning with extensive experience in globally distributed and cross-functional teams (research, engineering, business, design, IP, customer service etc.), academic collaborators (MIT, Stanford, BU, PUCPR), and research interns; accomplished 20+ business transfers.
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Experience (26 roles)
Advisory Board Member
CurrentFostering AI education across communities towards a better future. Skills: AI Strategy and Program Management · Generative AI · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence
Scientific Committee Member
CurrentSkills: Generative AI · Artificial Intelligence
HBR Advisory Council Member
CurrentMember of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, a panel of select opt-in research community of business professionals. Advisor for global AI research & product development, leadership and management. Skills: Generative AI · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Natural Language Understanding · ...
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Education (6)
The University of Lethbridge
Jan 2010 - May 2013
Grade: 4.00/4.00 Nominated for 2014 CAGS/UMI Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. Skills: Natural Language Processing · Reinforcement Learning · Generative AI · Machine Learning · Computational Linguistics sadid-PhD.Thesis.pdf University of Lethbridge - Alberta's Destination University
The University of Lethbridge
Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
Grade: 4.00/4.00 Skills: Natural Language Processing · Question Answering · Summarization · Generative AI · Machine Learning · Computational Linguistics sadid-M.Sc.Thesis.pdf Answering complex questions | FIAT
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Mar 2006 - Dec 2007
Ranked 1st in M.Sc. Admission Test. Joined the M.Sc. program in Canada before completion.
Skills (24)
Certifications (20)▼
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2023
Microsoft
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2024 Judge
Microsoft
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2024 Executive Challenge Winner
Microsoft
June 2024 MLADS Conference Proposal Reviewer
Microsoft
December 2023 MLADS Conference Volunteer
Microsoft
March 2025 MLADS+ Evaluation & Measurement Conference Proposal Reviewer
Microsoft
Microsoft Hack Advisor
Microsoft
Data Science for All 'DS4A' Mentor
Correlation One
Microsoft E+D Divisional Fix Hack Learn (FHL) 2024 Participant
Microsoft
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022
Microsoft
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022 Award Winner
Microsoft
Data Science for All - Mentor
Correlation One
Microsoft Global Hackathon Executive Challenge 2023 Winner
Microsoft
2024 Microsoft Journal of Applied Research Top Paper
Microsoft
December 2024 MLADS+RAI Conference Presenter
Microsoft
June 2024 MLADS Conference Presenter
Microsoft
June 2025 MLADS Conference Speaker
Microsoft
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2024
Microsoft
2022-23 Microsoft Technology Education and Learning Support (TEALS) Volunteer
Microsoft
June 2023 Machine Learning and Data Science (MLADS) Conference Reviewer
Microsoft
Publications (6)▼
A SVM-Based Ensemble Approach to Multi-Document Summarization
In Proceedings of the 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2009) · May 24, 2009
Towards Automatic Topical Question Generation
COLING-2012 · Dec 12, 2012
Complex Question Answering: Unsupervised Learning Approaches and Experiments
In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) · Jan 1, 2009
Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization: Automatic Data Annotations and Supervised Learning Approaches
Natural Language Engineering · Jan 1, 2012
On the Effectiveness of Using Sentence Compression Models for Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization
COLING-2012 · Dec 12, 2012
Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009) · Jul 13, 2009
Languages (2)▼
Volunteer Experience (4)▼
Content Board Member
CurrentData Science Salon
Nov 2021 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos
Mentor
CurrentSharpestMinds
Oct 2021 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos
Mentor
CurrentData Science for All by Correlation One
Jan 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos
Scientific Program Committee Member
CurrentAI, Machine Learning, and NLP Conferences
Jan 2009 - Present · 16 yrs 7 mos
Honors & Awards (20)▼
Mitacs Accelerate Internship Award
Issued by Mitacs · Oct 2012
Associated with Mitacs
Post Doctoral Fellowship
Issued by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) · Jul 2013
Declined.
Philips Research North America Recognition Award
May 2015
Associated with Philips - for outstanding contribution in the NLP projects for 2014.
ICML 2020 Reviewer Recognition Award
Issued by ICML · Sep 2020
Philips Research North America Recognition Award
Issued by Philips · Aug 2017
Associated with Philips
Most Innovative Project (X-Challenge Hackathon)
Issued by Philips · Feb 2017
Associated with Philips - for building the most innovative AI-based solution for the radiology domain
Research Dissemination Award
Issued by University of Lethbridge · Dec 2012
Associated with University of Lethbridge
Post Doctoral Fellowship
Issued by University of Alberta · Aug 2013
Declined.
Philips Research North America Recognition Award
Issued by Philips · Dec 2018
Associated with Philips
Philips Research North America Recognition Award
Jul 2015
Associated with Philips - for outstanding contribution in the "Semantic Search for Brazilian Portuguese Clinical Reports" project.
Top Writer Award
Issued by Quora · Mar 2018
Associated with Philips
Post Doctoral Fellowship
Issued by University of Memphis, USA · Jan 2014
Declined.
NeurIPS 2019 Top Reviewer Award
Issued by NeurIPS 2019 · Sep 2019
Associated with Philips https://nips.cc/Conferences/2019/Reviewers
Philips Research North America Recognition Award
Aug 2015
Associated with Philips - for outstanding contribution in developing deep learning based algorithms for clinical knowledge discovery and social media data analysis.
Post Doctoral Fellowship
Issued by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) · Jul 2013
Associated with University of Lethbridge
Ranked 1st in Annual CVS Health Analytics Venture Competition
Issued by CVS Health · Sep 2021
Associated with CVS Health Our innovative solution on "VoiceAI for customer call summarization" won the competition.
Philips Research North America Recognition Award
Dec 2016
Associated with Philips - for outstanding contribution in research and development of AI-based solutions for healthcare
Breakthrough Innovation Award
Issued by Philips · Nov 2017
Associated with Philips - for showcasing an AI-powered solution with the most promising business case and fastest market entry for the healthcare domain
Ranked 1st in Microsoft Global AI for Virtual Community Challenge
Issued by Microsoft · Oct 2022
Associated with Microsoft Our innovative hackathon project “Artificial Emotional Intelligence” won the 2022 global hackathon challenge (out of 92 entrants in the competition).
Mitacs Accelerate Post Doctoral Internship Award
Issued by Mitacs · Oct 2013
Associated with University of Lethbridge
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