bio

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Short Bio

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is a Resident Fellow at the Harborview Medical Center (UW Medicine). He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Bothell. He received PhD in Computer Science from University of Minnesota and Bachelors in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Long Bio

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is a Research Scientist at the Harborview Medical Center (UW Medicine). He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Bothell. Previously he was also a Visiting Research Scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in Professor Nisheeth Srivastava’s Lab. He has over 50 publications in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has served on program committees of several international conferences in AI & machine learning. Muhammad Aurangzeb received his PhD and Masters in Computer Science from University of Minnesota and Bachelors in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology with minors in Philosophy and Mathematics. His graduate research and that of his colleague Nishith Pathak, resulted in a spin-out start up company from Professor Srivastava’s lab at UMN. Apart from his current appointments, he has extensive experience in both industry and academia: He was a research assistant in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota (UMN) and research associate at the Center for Cognitive Science at UMN. His current research is focused on fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics (fate) in AI, explainable AI and AI in healthcare. He has worked in the area of applied machine learning in a number of industries: Commercial retail (Senior Data Scientist at Groupon), Gaming (Research Scientist at Ninja Metrics), modeling human mobility (GIS at UQU), Energy sector (Consolidated Edison of New York), Population Studies (Minnesota Population Center) and Biomedical devices (Boston Scientific).