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Muntasir Rahmn

Muntasir Rahmn
Principal Engineer

Dr. Muntasir Raihan Rahman is a principal machine learning engineer in the Core AI group in Seattle. Previously he worked as a principal machine Learning engineer at the Business Copilot Applied AI group within Microsoft. Before that, he spent 2 years working as a computer systems researcher at Bell Labs in New Jersey, USA. He obtained his Master of Mathematics degree from University of Waterloo in 2010 and his PhD in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 2016.

During his PhD he won the prestigious VMware graduate fellowship and multiple best paper awards (ICAC 2015, IC2E 2018). Muntasir has been involved with multiple conferences and journals, including co-chairing the International Symposium of Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2022) industry conference, and has served as program committee member of SRDS 2022, IEEE Cloudnet 2021, and many other conferences. His current research interests include distributed and federated machine learning, scalable AI infrastructure for deep learning and LLM, and distributed and concurrent algorithms.

He also has interests in algorithmic game theory, topics at the intersection of economics and AI, and quantum information and computation.

Education

  • B.S in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  • M.Math in Computer Science from University of Waterloo
  • Ph.D in Computer Science from University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign