Ideas: Exploring AI frontiers with Rafah Hosn
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My guest today is Rafah Hosn. She’s a partner, group product manager for AI Frontiers at Microsoft Research. I’d call Rafah a sort of organizational conductor, working both with leaders to drive clarity around the mission as well as program managers to make sure they have solid operational strategies to execute on it. Rafah has mad skills in bringing research ideas from lab to life, and I’m thrilled to talk to her today. Rafah Hosn, welcome to Ideas!
RAFAH HOSN: Thank you, Gretchen. Oh, my goodness, I have to live up to this introduction now! [LAUGHTER]
HUIZINGA: Well, before we talk about research ideas, let’s talk about you and your own sort of “reason for being” in the research world. How would you describe