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Sarah Bird

Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI @ Microsoft

About

Sarah leads Responsible AI for foundational AI technologies 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 and led the Responsible AI development for Github Copilot. Sarah led the product development of responsible AI tools including Fairlearn (opens in new tab), SmartNoise (opens in new tab) and InterpretML. (opens in new tab) She is an active member of the Microsoft AETHER (opens in new tab) committee and contributed to the creation of the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard. Sarah was one of the founding researchers in the Microsoft FATE (opens in new tab) research group.

Sarah is active contributor to the open source ecosystem, she co-founded ONNX, (opens in new tab) Fairlearn and OpenDP’s (opens in new tab) SmartNoise and was a leader in the Pytorch 1.0 (opens in new tab) 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 (opens in new tab) research conference and the Learning Systems workshops (opens in new tab). She has a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley advised by Dave Patterson (opens in new tab), Krste Asanovic (opens in new tab), and Burton Smith (opens in new tab).