Summary
Afra Amini is a research scientist and Ph.D. student at ETH AI Center specializing in the intersection of NLP and computational social science, with nine years of experience applying machine learning, data mining, and deep learning to real-world problems. She has built and scaled production ML pipelines at Cafe Bazaar for a 20M+ user platform and progressed to research roles at ETH and Google DeepMind, blending systems-level engineering with academic rigor. Her work spans ads moderation prototypes, clustering and outlier detection, and constraint-removal heuristics in program analysis, showing comfort across applied and theoretical problems. Afra’s trajectory is marked by competitive scholarships (ETH Excellence Programme) and internships at leading labs, reflecting both high academic achievement and practical impact on large-scale systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology