Paul Rodrigues
Chief AI Officer @ Microsoft NSG
- Role
- Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Microsoft
- Location
- Annapolis, MD, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Paul Rodrigues
Dr. Paul Rodrigues is the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of Microsoft\'s National Security Group (NSG), where he supports AI efforts across US federal customers and the defense industrial base. Before Microsoft, Dr. Rodrigues was Principal Director of Data Science Innovation and the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Science Director at Accenture Federal Services (AFS), where he coordinated NLP efforts across Accenture\'s US federal client accounts. He started and led the AFS NLP Community of Practice, a group comprised of over 350 members. Dr. Rodrigues played a pivotal role in training upwards of 700 professionals, including data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data visualization specialists, within the AFS Data and AI Practice.Prior to AFS, Dr. Rodrigues was an Associate Research Scientist at two DOD University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs)—the University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) and the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). He has continued to teach Big Data Analytics in University of Maryland\'s Machine Learning program.Dr. Rodrigues has led 10 federally funded research projects, authored over 35 peer-reviewed research papers, and produced more than 20 comprehensive technical reports for US Government clients. He holds a PhD. and a MA in Computational Linguistics from Indiana University, and a BS in Information Systems from Stockton University.
Experience
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
Aug 2024 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Supporting the National Security Group
Education
Stockton University
B.S., Computer Science
1998 — 2003
Indiana University Bloomington
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics
2003 — 2012
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Semantics
- Statistics
- Linguistics
- Computer Science
- Natural Language Processing
- Research Design
- Python
- Latex
- Text Mining
- Computational Linguistics
- Information Extraction
- Cognitive Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- C++
- Data Mining
- R
- Information Retrieval
- Pattern Recognition
- Software Engineering
- Research
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