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Alicia Edelman Pelton

Principal Program Manager

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Alicia is a Principal Program Manager for the Machine Teaching Innovation group in the Experiences and Devices division.  This group grew out of the Machine Teaching group (opens in new tab) in Microsoft Research AI. Machine teaching will bring the power of machine learning to developers and subject matter experts without requiring a deep understanding of machine learning.

She is working to deliver machine teaching technology in LUIS (opens in new tab) and other Microsoft products. In addition, she works directly with researchers and the engineering team to do research on new innovations in machine teaching to improve the power of teachers to quickly build and maintain accurate custom machine learning models.

Alicia earned a BS in electrical engineering from Gonzaga University in 1994 and a MSEE with a focus in artificial inlligence from Purdue in 1995. She began her career at Microsoft in the Windows NT group and worked on 7 1.0 products before moving to research. In her 9 years in Microsoft research, she worked in diverse areas such as economics, social networking, video streaming, data visualization and machine translation.  Alicia has been with the Machine Teaching team since 2017 and now works with both research and products.