Sara Abdali

Sara Abdali is a senior researcher in Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group (ASG), where she works on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Multimodal Generative A.I.-related projects.

Before joining ASG, Sara was a postdoctoral CIFellow at Georgia Tech, working on multimodal misinformation detection.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside where she studied misinformation detection, leveraging multilinear (tensor) algebra, along with a variety of NLP and vision.  She also worked on deepfake video detection and on development of augmentation techniques in few-shot settings.  In fall of 2020, Sara completed a research internship at Lenovo Research, where she worked on deep learning-based image enhancement.  In summer of 2021, she finished a data science internship at Microsoft where she worked on development of cutting-edge NLP techniques.