Bio

Rashed Haq is a Bangladeshi-American artist, technologist and writer. He uses a combination of AI and photography in his artistic practice. He has recently had over 50 solo and group exhibitions across North America. He was awarded the Art+Science award from Lenscratch, and the COMPAS Photography award from Oxford University. His works are included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Grace Museum, among various private and corporate collections.

An accomplished AI and technology leader, Haq most recently served as the Vice President of AI and Robotics at Cruise, one of the leading autonomous vehicle companies. He and his team were the first to deploy commercial self-driving cars in a major US city, where their technology measurably exceeded aggregate human driving performance and operated fully driverlessly for over five million miles across five cities. This was recognized in the 2025 Guiness Book of World Records. Previously, he was the Head of AI & Robotics, Fellow and Group Vice President at Publicis Sapient, a global leader in digital transformation. Prior to that, he conducted research in theoretical physics at the Los Alamos National Lab and the Institute for Theoretical Science. He has served on the AI Advisory Board of the Computing Technology Industry Association and on the Board of Directors of FotoFest.

Haq was awarded the Robotics Innovation Award by Robotics Business Review in 2022, and was short-listed for the AI Innovator of the Year Award by AI Business in 2019. His 2020 book Enterprise AI Transformation with Wiley Press was named one of the “100 Best Technology eBooks of All Time” and one of the “Best AI Audiobooks of All Time” by Book Authority in 2021.

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