Zunaid Kazi

Zunaid KaziDr. Zunaid Kazi is a technologist with over 19 years leadership experience in technology research, development and management. He is a noted expert in Artificial Intelligence focusing on Knowledge Management applications using advanced NLP, IR and Machine Learning technologies.

Zunaid is currently Vice President, Research and Development at Parity Computing. Parity's Unstructured Data Management and Knowledge Discovery technology extracts and profiles key entities such as people and organization from disparate data sources and mines relationships between these entities - transforming data into an actionable knowledge network. His role includes developing key technology innovations including author and entity profiling and managing research and development process at Parity. As a member of Parity's senior management team, he also assists in defining and refining Parity's business and technology strategy.

Previously, Zunaid was Director of Technology Strategy and Product Management at Liaison Technology. Liaison provided content integration solutions for creating and managing commerce-ready catalogs. At Liaison, Zunaid was responsible for directing product management for the entire Liaison product suite. He also innovated and implemented several major technology innovations applying advanced AI techniques.

Earlier, he was with IBM Research where he was a Research Staff Member at the T. J. Watson Research Center. While at IBM, Zunaid played a key role in the development of IBM's knowledge management applications. Zunaid also spent some time in academia and teaching Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology for a couple of years.

Zunaid received an MS and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware and a BS in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has authored a number of technical publications and patents.

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