Zairah Mustahsan
Staff Data Scientist
Zairah Mustahsan is a Staff Data Scientist at You.com, an AI Search Infrastructure company, where she leads AI evaluations and experimentation. Previously, Zairah was a Data Scientist at IBM Research, researching Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI Fairness topics. Zairah obtained her M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where she researched scikit-learn model performance.
Her findings have since been used as guidelines for machine learning. Zairah is a regular speaker at AI conferences such as NeurIPS, AI4, AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, and ODSC. Zairah has published her work in top AI conferences such AAAI and has over 500 citations. Aside from work, Zairah enjoys adventure sports and creative writing.

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