Chicago – March 27, 2024
Nazneen Rajani, a native of Khoja in the US, has been chosen to join the UN Secretary General’s AI Advisory Board.
Nazneen Rajani: who is she?
Nazneen Rajani, an Indian resident of the United States, is a mother of two children. She studied Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the interpretability of machine learning models, earning her a Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Credentials and Professional Background:
She began working on commonsense reasoning and interpretability in NLP as a Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce Research after receiving her Ph.D. Nazneen is the founder and CEO of Collinear AI, a startup focused on building solutions for enterprises to evaluate language models and finetune them for the objectives they care about, such as performance, safety, consistency, etc.
The formation of the AI Advisory Body marks a significant step in the United Nations’ efforts to address issues in the international governance of artificial intelligence. And the selection of an Indian AI expert is a testament that India has a sharp focus on tech industry development.
