Ahmad A. Rushdi

About

I'm a research scientist and Director of Industry Programs at Stanford HAI, leading impactful applied AI/ML research collaborations with industry affiliates from different verticals. My work focuses on uncertainty quantification for scientific machine learning and on AI trust, safety, and responsible development. Previously at Sandia National Laboratories, Northrop Grumman, UC Davis, the Oden Institute at UT Austin, and Cisco. Ph.D., ECE, UC Davis; M.S./B.S., Cairo University.

Recent

• 2025-12Presenting at NeurIPS, San Diego.
• 2025-09Co-organizing the AI for Organizations Grand Challenge with Google DeepMind.
• 2025-04Co-organizing the Human-AI Coevolution workshop at ICLR, Singapore.
• 2024-12Attended NeurIPS, Vancouver.
• 2024-10Co-organized Bridging the Farm: AI for Science at SLAC and Stanford.
• 2024-07Two talks on T2I model evaluation and bias mitigation at the AI for Good Institute, Stanford.
• 2024-05Judged and mentored teams at NextGen II Hackathon, Riyadh.
• 2024-03Attended Nvidia GTC, San Jose.
• 2024-02Co-organized the HAI/SAL AI+Education Summit.
• 2023→Panelist/reviewer on Stanford's Ethics & Society Review.
• 2023-12NeurIPS, New Orleans; panelist at the NAML affinity workshop.
• 2023-12Co-organized Stanford's HAI/AIMI AI+Health Conference.
• 2023-09Organized and moderated a panel on Mental Health and AI at Stanford's Trust & Safety Research Conference.
• 2023-07Attended the 40th ICML, Hawaii.
• 2023-02Co-organized Stanford's AI+Education Summit.
• 2022-11Attended NeurIPS, New Orleans.
• 2022-08Co-organized a JSM minisymposium on UQ × ML for high-consequence problems.
• 2022-04Co-organized a minisymposium at the SIAM Conference on UQ (UQ22).
• 2021-12Started a new role at Stanford HAI.
• 2021-09Joined the Advisory Council, Engineering Leadership Program, Cal State Chico.
• 2019-09Contributed to the AI for Science Report (ML/UQ sections).