Afra Amini
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Switzerland
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Top SchoolAfra 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 ZürichBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
language-processing7
korean-nlp7
nlp6
science6
spring6
natural-language-processing5
reinforcement-learning5
machine-learning5
pytorch5
language-modeling4
fairness-ml4
distributed-training2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AfraAmini/afraamini.github.io
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
rycolab/cpsbs
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:164 commits, 1 push in 10 months
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