Naushad is the CTO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI and leads a team of highly skilled experts, data scientists, and engineers who discover emergent threats to get ahead of real-world harm. UzZaman is responsible for developing Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Platform, and along with his team, he has built a unique series of scalable ML, generative AI, and network analysis solutions that detect rare risk signals of threats. Naushad brings a rare combination of foundational knowledge and technical expertise to a mission-driven enterprise committed to this problem set. His applied expertise in both academic research and social enterprise comes from time spent at leading firms such as Nuance, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Bosch – and now at Blackbird.AI. Naushad has two decades of experience in artificial intelligence and natural language processing and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.