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Name Amgad Madkour
Label Principal Manager at Microsoft AI
Url https://amgadmadkour.com
Summary A seasoned technology leader with over 10 years of experience transforming business strategies into scalable products. Expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Graphs, Data Management, and Data Integration. Proven track record of delivering highly ambiguous projects through incremental delivery to ensure maximum business value. Skilled at leading cross-functional engineering and science teams, overseeing program execution, and tracking success metrics. Currently managing a team of 10 professionals, including Software Engineers and Applied Scientists, focused on developing large-scale products that utilize data management and AI techniques to provide significant user value.

Work

  • 2024.11 - Present

    Redmond, USA

    Principal Manager
    Microsoft
    • Led the engineering and science work for the product tracking platform on Microsoft Copilot and Edge.
    • Doubled the growth of product tracking through FY24, enhancing user shopping intent insights.
    • Introduced innovative features that extract users' shopping intent to enhance the shopping experience on Microsoft's platform.
  • 2022.04 - 2024.11

    Redmond, USA

    Senior Manager
    Microsoft
    • Led the development of Microsoft Autos AI Assistant, the first assistant on an automotive marketplace using generative models.
    • Spearheaded the creation of My Garage for Microsoft Autos Marketplace, consolidating user vehicle data from various sources.
    • Developed automotive entity frameworks for Bing, MSN, and Microsoft Autos Marketplace.
  • 2018.05 - 2018.08

    Redmond, USA

    Data Scientist Intern
    Microsoft
    • Conflation Updates: Designed and implemented a conflation update component responsible for accelerating the reflection of conflation changes into the Satori final graph.
  • 2015.05 - 2015.08

    Redmond, USA

    Research Intern
    Microsoft Research
    • Dependency parsing: Conducted a series of experiments ranging from up-training to entity linking to improve dependency parsing accuracy.
  • 2011.05 - 2011.08

    Sunnyvale, USA

    Research Intern
    Yahoo!
    • Recommendation system: Developed a recommendation system for local businesses.
  • 2006.01 - 2010.07

    Cairo, Egypt

    Research Engineer
    IBM
    • Tag Recommendation Technique: Co-invented and patented a k-partite graph technique for tag recommendation during resource bookmarking.
    • Spam Detection: Proposed a set of features that identify spam bookmarks in social media and evaluated their feasibility across various machine learning algorithms.
    • Extracting relations from biomedical text: Developed a system that automatically extracts interactions between entities such as proteins, chemicals, and diseases from biomedical text with preliminary focus on protein-protein interactions.
    • Machine Assisted Translation: Developed a system that provides suggestions when translating documents. The system uses continuous space language models for statistical machine translation.
    • Unstructured Information Management Platform: Participated in joint development with Watson lab in Yorktown to develop a system that analyzes large volumes of unstructured textual information from the news domain to discover, organize, and deliver relevant knowledge to end-users.

Volunteer

  • 2014.04 - 2015.07

    Cairo, Egypt

    Volunteer
    Egypt Scholars
    Developing software for the visually impaired

Education

Awards

Languages

Arabic
Native speaker
English
Fluent