Chad Atalla
Principal Applied Scientist - Responsible AI At Microsoft Research
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChad Atalla is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research specializing in AI evaluation and safety, with 11 years of experience bridging foundational research and product-ready responsible AI technologies. He focuses on mapping, measuring, and managing generative AI risks for natural language and multimodal systems (including work built on GPT-5), contributing to releases like M365 Copilot and Azure AI Foundry. At Microsoft he led and scaled teams in Responsible AI, translating sociotechnical evaluation methods into practical safeguards for production services. His background at UC San Diego and interdisciplinary research in cognitive science and deep learning informs a human-centered approach to AI risk assessment. Known for moving between rigorous evaluation frameworks and real-world deployment constraints, he excels at making complex safety research actionable for large-scale products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
transfer-learning7
python6
image-classification5
machine-learning5
deep-learning4
tensorflow4
ml2
generative1
pytorch1
stereo1
sequence1
gradient1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
catalla/Monitor.backend
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:23 pushes in 27 days
bartTam/ModifAE_2019
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 6 days
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