Jalal is a Staff Research Engineer at Megagon Labs. Prior to joining Megagon labs, he was with AMD Research where he led research efforts aimed at building efficient LLMs and optimizing LLM workloads. Between 2008-2022, he was with IBM Research and IBM Watson. At IBM, he conducted research on intelligent user interfaces, text analytics, data science, and applied machine learning. His work resulted in research publications to prestigious conferences/journals, numerous patents, and multiple product impacts. He was a technical leader for several IBM Watson products, such as IBM Watson personality insights, IBM Watson tone analysis, IBM Watson emotion analysis, and IBM Watson sentiment service. Jalal is active in the academic community, has published more than 90 research papers (4000+ citations), has served as an organizing committee and senior program committee member of major international conferences, and is an ACM senior member. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.
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