John Lewin
Principal Manager, AI and Research, Microsoft

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Shane Lewin is principal manager of AI and research at Microsoft. Shane has been shipping products in technology and AI for over 10 years, with experience spanning everything from large companies such as Netflix and Microsoft to early-stage startups, including Gliimpse and OpenTalent, to companies making the transition from smaller company to large organization, such as Powerset and Shutterstock. Most recently, he was vice president of product for data science at Lumiata. His portfolio includes a medical AI engine that identifies high-risk patients to enable early intervention; an image search engine that allows customers to search by emotion, mood, and context; a self-learning customer communication and email platform that increased retention while reducing total emails; a data optimization platform that saved over $1M per year on a nearly 10x cost reduction; and the massive distributed document summarization engine that generates all the text you see on Bing. Shane holds an MS in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University and degrees in molecular biology and mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.