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Bio : Dr. Abdali is a Senior Researcher at Applied Sciences Group (ASG) working on a variety of NLP and multimodal tasks including customization and distillation of Microsoft Turing and Microsoft Phi  LLMs/SLMs for downstream tasks, multitask architectures, multimodal generative models, causa and more recently multimodal conversational agents. Before joining Microsoft, she was a postdoctoral CIFellow at Georgia Tech, working on my NSF funded project, “Adversarially robust multimodal misinformation detection”. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), where she received the Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award , which fully funded her studies. During the Ph.D., she mainly worked on misinformation detection leveraging multilinear (tensor) algebra along with a variety of NLP and vision techniques. She also worked on Deepfake video detection and development of text augmentation techniques in few-shot settings. In fall 2020, she completed a research internship at Lenovo Research,  where the worked on deep learning-based image enhancement. In summer 2021, she finished another internship at Microsoft where she worked on development of cutting-edge NLP techniques.

Bio: Eve Psalti is 20-year year tech and business leader, currently the Senior Director at Microsoft’s Azure AI engineering organization responsible for scaling and commercializing artificial intelligence solutions. She was previously the Head of Strategic Platforms at Google Cloud where she worked with F500 companies helping them grow their businesses through digital transformation initiatives.

Prior to Google, Eve held business development, sales and marketing leadership positions at Microsoft and startups across the US and Europe leading 200-people teams and $600M businesses.

A native of Greece, she holds a Master’s degree and several technology and business certifications from London Business School and the University of Washington. Eve currently serves on the board of WE Global Studios, a full-stack startup innovation studio supporting female entrepreneurs.