About
Suzana is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, working on integrated safety systems for Generative AI. Throughout her career, she has played integral roles in the development of high-impact data and language technologies, including the Google Assistant, a cutting-edge biomedical research and knowledge platform for scientific discovery, BLOOM Large Language Models, and AI safety products for Large Language Models such as GPT-4o in Azure OpenAI. Suzana led science and engineering communities since 2015, including WuV, MLT, and BigScience, and is dedicated to creating inclusive environments for cross-functional and multi-disciplinary collaboration to advance the industry and benefit humanity.
Resume
2022-Present: Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
2021-2022: Technical Program Manager, HuggingFace
2020-2021: Technical Product Owner / Computational Linguist, Causaly
2019-2020: Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2018-2019: Data Project Manager, Google Japan (contract)
2017-2018: Visiting PhD Researcher, National Institute of Informatics Japan
2015-2016: Program Manager, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
Nonprofit
2017-2023: Director, Machine Learning Tokyo
Education
BA in Linguistics, MA in Linguistics, PhD in Linguistics in progress [Google Scholar]
Visiting scholar / Continuous education
June-July 2022: Artificial Intelligence Strategy, UC Berkeley
November 2019: Full Stack Deep Learning Bootcamp, UC Berkeley
March 2019: International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo
2016-2017: Rikkyo University, Tokyo (JASSO scholarship, JOINT scholarship)
May 2015: MIT, Cambridge
Speaking engagements
2024
Microsoft Build 2024, Seattle
Breakout Session: Safeguard your copilot with Azure AI
2023
NatWest Bank, London, UK
Responsible AI in Azure OpenAI
2022
Accelerate your Transformer journey
AIML workshop with AWS & Hugging Face
UCL Natural Language Processing Meetup, UCL AI Centre
Collaborative Machine Learning Research: Open Data, Models, Tools
European AI Week 2022
AI Week Panel: Cultural views on AI from Asia, Africa and North America
2021
GDG Cloud San Francisco 2021
Virtual, invited speaker, BigScience
IBM Research Zurich (internal)
Virtual, invited speaker, BigScience
GDR TAL 2021 – French National NLP Group
Virtual, invited speaker, BigScience
Conference theme: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Automatic Language Processing
2020
TWIML AI
Virtual, keynote interview
Weights and Biases, Gradient Dissent Podcast
Virtual, interview
CTDS Podcast
Virtual, interview
Tokyo Speaks Podcast, Tokyo, Japan
Interview
2019
Northeast Asia Women Techmakers Ambassadors Summit 2019
Google Tokyo, Japan
Rakuten Technology and Innovation Silver Award 2019, Tokyo, Japan
Acceptance speech
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Deep Learning Bootcamp for researchers in earth-life sciences
Nikkei’s AI Summit AI/SUM, Tokyo, Japan
Data, Task and Algorithm Complexity in Deep Learning Projects
International Symposium on Computational Media Art 2019, University of Hong Kong
Creative AI: The synthesis of machine-generated poetry and virtual landscapes