Jude Khouja
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJude Khouja is a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI with nine years of experience building socially-aware AI and conversational agents that exhibit personality and social reasoning. Previously a founder advising AI startups and a senior applied scientist at Forethought and Microsoft, he merges research-grade NLP and LLM work with product-focused deployment in customer-facing systems. His background spans industry and research—from building big-data ML solutions at Oracle and Salesforce to leading analytics teams and winning applied outcomes in public-sector projects. Based in San Francisco and holding a PhD from Oxford, Jude brings both academic rigor and hands-on engineering, with a lesser-seen strength in shaping teams and strategy early in a company’s lifecycle.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of OxfordBachelor of Engineering - BEng Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BEng Computer Science at Damascus UniversityMaster's degree Computer and Information Sciences General, Master's degree Computer and Information Sciences General at University of MarylandGraduate Coursework Deep Learning for NLP, Graduate Coursework Deep Learning for NLP at Stanford University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (17)
topological-data-analysis9
ai8
deep-learning6
natural-language-processing5
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence4
java2
language-model2
python2
markdown2
openapi2
rest-api2
github-pages2
slideshow1
static-site-generator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jkhouja/jkhouja.github.io
Nov 2019 - Jun 2025
Contributions:83 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
jkhouja/experimenter
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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