Sarah Ouwayda

Sarah Ouwayda is a Senior Technical Lead and Manager at Google, where leadership spans a geographically distributed team focused on developing innovative machine learning solutions for brand safety. With a strong foundation in linguistics and engineering, Sarah's career includes roles as a Product Manager and Machine Learning Linguist & Rater Program Manager, driving initiatives that integrate ML modeling and human computation to address critical safety challenges. Prior to Google, Sarah contributed as a Research Scientist at the University of Geneva and held academic appointments at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Southern California, and the American University of Beirut. Sarah earned a PhD in Linguistics and has engaged in further academic pursuits at MIT, showcasing expertise in both linguistics and engineering disciplines.