Dr. Khan Md. Anwarus Salam | Visionary AI & Data Executive

Executive Summary

I am a Visionary AI & Data Executive with a Ph.D. and a proven track record of leading cross-functional Data Governance initiatives and organizational Digital Transformation (DX).

My passion lies in leveraging data for social infrastructure and sustainable value creation. Currently, as an Engineering Manager at SoftBank, I spearhead the "Beyond AI" vision, connecting cutting-edge research with practical business applications. Previously, I have driven impact at a global scale, from leading Bengali AI product initiatives at Google to developing cognitive robotics frameworks at IBM Research.

Professional Experience

2021 – Present

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Engineering Manager (AI Strategy Office)

SoftBank Corp.

Leading AI strategic initiatives to promote adoption and DX across the organization.

Spearheaded 'Beyond AI' vision, connecting research with business applications.
Led Axross Recipe team to develop AI Agent Tutor with gamification.
Managed TASUKI Annotation R&D for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs).
Built scalable GenAI experimentation environments with NVIDIA NPN partnership.

2019 – 2020

DDS

Chief Technology Officer

Dream Door Soft Ltd.

Provided Conversational AI and Telephony Dialogue Engines for financial and travel industries.

Developed Voice-based Travel Agents and Voice Banking solutions.
Implemented Accounting SaaS solutions for SMEs.

2018 – 2019

CAI

Senior Research Scientist

Cinnamon AI

Led international AI research teams (Tokyo, Vietnam, Taiwan) focusing on document extraction.

Mentored 20 AI Engineers and conducted performance reviews.
Applied ML to unstructured document extraction products.

2016 – 2018

IBM

Research Scientist

IBM Research

Focused on cognitive robotics frameworks and multilingual NLP.

Developed 'Project Intu' for cognitive experiences on IoT devices.
Improved semantic parsers using Watson Explorer & Knowledge Studio.

2014 – 2016

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Country Engineering Consultant

Google Asia Pacific

Led 'Impacts for Bangladesh' AI product launches.

Launched Bengali TTS, STT, and Handwriting Recognition.
Managed 12 linguists and motivated 50k volunteers for Google Translate.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo

2011 - 2014

Thesis: Ontology Based Machine Translation for Bengali as Low-resource Language

M.E. in Computer Science

The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo

2009 - 2011

Thesis: English to Bangla Machine Translation System Development

B.Sc. in Computer Science

BRAC University, Dhaka

2004 - 2008

VC’s Scholarship

Technical Expertise

AI & Generative Models

GPT-4 Gemini Claude RAG Agentic AI TensorFlow PyTorch

Data Engineering

Databricks BigQuery Delta Lake ETL/ELT SQL/NoSQL

Leadership & Governance

AI Governance Frameworks Model Safety Agile Management Cross-functional Leadership

Languages & NLP

Python C++ Java Bengali/Japanese NLP Knowledge Graphs

Research & Publications

Patent 2019

Finding of Asymmetric Relation Between Words

US Patent (with M. Muraoka & T. Nasukawa)