Meet India-born Huma Abidi, who spearheads AI for Intel's projects

Intel's AI technologies are being used for numerous applications including faster drug discovery to fight diseases like cancer, finding missing children, and optimising crop yields

As the director of machine learning and deep learning software engineering at Intel Corp, Huma Abidi is responsible for making some of the biggest bets in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and drive its applications at the largest microprocessor maker. At a time when Intel wants to bring more AI technology into all aspects of its business, Abidi sees India playing a key role for many of the company's AI-related bets.

The company’s AI technologies are being used for numerous applications. These include shortening the time to train image analysis models for faster drug discovery and evaluating the