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Rukmini Iyer

Distinguished Engineer, Corporate Vice President 
Microsoft 
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WiDS Closing Remarks 
Biography Rukmini runs Microsoft Advertising’s engineering organization, managing a multi-billion dollar marketplace globally. Her team develops AI-driven product features, machine learning & auction algorithms, and very large-scale distributed infrastructure for a global advertising ecosystem. She actively supports the Microsoft AI community and is on the Technical Advisory Board for Microsoft Research (India). She is also on the Microsoft Bay Area Board of Directors, focused on the growth & development of the Microsoft Silicon Valley community.
She spent the first 10 years of her career as an R&D scientist in the field of speech recognition and natural language processing, first at BBN Technologies and later at Nuance Communications. Prior to joining Microsoft, she spent 5 years at Yahoo, developing some of their early machine learning algorithms for online search advertising, and deploying one of the first distributed machine learning training pipelines on Hadoop.

Rukmini has an MS, PhD in Electrical Engineering from Boston University. Affiliations include: External Advisory Board of the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University, Industry Advisory Board at Virginia Tech, and Volunteer for Women in Data Science Education Outreach (WiDS Stanford) program for middle & high school girls.

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