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Chris Hughes
Member #429DeveloperL2AI Team Lead, Microsoft
AI Engineering Leader at Microsoft | Enterprise AI from ambition to production
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About
Chris Hughes is an AI Team Lead at Microsoft in London, where he leads AI teams that help large organisations turn what they want from AI into systems that ship. Earlier he worked as a Principal Machine Learning Engineer and Scientist Manager in Microsoft's AI engineering group. Chris created pytorch-accelerated, an open source library for training PyTorch models, and writes about applied AI and software architecture.
Experience
AI Engineering Leader at Microsoft | Enterprise AI from ambition to production
AI Engineering Leader · Microsoft
Principal Group Data Science Manager · Microsoft
Principal Data Science Manager · Microsoft
Principal Machine Learning Engineer/Scientist · Microsoft
Senior Machine Learning Engineer/Scientist · Microsoft
Python/Machine Learning Lead · Marks and Spencer
Graduate Software Engineer · Marks and Spencer
Associate Business Systems Analyst (Summer Internship) · SAS UK
