Hamid Palangi

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Staff Research Scientist Manager at Google

Greater Seattle Area, United States

Overview

Hamid Palangi is a Staff Research Scientist Manager at Google and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington, specializing in AI, ML, and NLP. With a Ph. D. from The University of British Columbia, he leads cutting-edge research. Colleagues describe him as a great mentor and insightful leader.

His research has contributed to developing safety-aligned models like ShieldGemma2 and advancing work in multi-agent systems and vision-language modeling.

Personality Overview

ROI Conscious

Hard To Convince

Upfront

They respond well to confident salespeople.  They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They care equally about the product and its potential impact.

Topics They Care About

Multi-Agent Systems
Actively seeking researchers for multi-agent data synthesis and has shared work on using these systems to generate reasoning trajectories for large language models.
Vision-Language Models
Possesses deep experience in this domain, driving research to unify pretraining frameworks for both vision-language understanding and generation tasks.
AI in Healthcare
He is recruiting researchers with experience in the consumer health domain, signaling a professional focus on applying AI to health-related challenges.

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Work History

7-2024
Staff Research Scientist Manager at Google
4-2022
Affiliate Associate Professor at University of Washington
6-2021
Advisor at Koidra
9-2022 - 7-2024
Principal Researcher (Microsoft Research) at Microsoft
11-2017 - 8-2022
Senior Researcher (Microsoft Research) at Microsoft

Education

2012 - 2016
Ph.D. from The University of British Columbia
2015 - 2015
Summer School from August 03 to August 12 from Université de Montréal

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Insights For Selling To Hamid

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Tell them that you are there to help them create visible impact within their organization
  • Make sure that you you respond to any queries from them quickly
  • Stress on the business value that your product offers

DONT's

  • Don’t expect them to change their mind quickly if they say no once
  • Don't try too hard to get friendly, let it happen with time
  • Don’t try to be an alpha salesperson, give them equal space

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Hamid is

  • Confidence in the product plays an important role, followed by powerful testimonials.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Hamid

  • They might hesitate a little, but they will say no if they are not convinced.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Hamid move?

  • Their decision making speed is somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Hamid take some risk or not?

  • Once they have analyzed the pros and cons, they can take some risks.

You And Hamid

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