| Dr.
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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