Omar Shaikh

Omar Shaikh is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University and serves as a Research Assistant. Prior experience includes a Research Intern role at Microsoft and multiple research assistant positions at Georgia Institute of Technology, where Omar focused on natural language processing and human-computer interaction. Additionally, Omar completed internships at Square, where responsibilities involved analyzing the impact of stay-at-home mandates on small business digitization and applying research in machine learning commerce. Further research experience includes a position at Information Sciences Institute working on transfer learning for machine translation, and earlier work at Cornell University concentrating on collaborative virtual reality environments and user behavior. Omar holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.