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Nazneen Rajani bridges research and product as founder of stealth startup Collinear and former Research Lead at Hugging Face. An expert in NLP, she's co-authored seminal work on model interpretability and multimodal reasoning. Now building AI solutions informed by deep research experience, she actively promotes inclusion in AI, inspiring young researchers from underrepresented backgrounds to enter the field.

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