Alan Said
Associate Professor
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Said is an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and applied machine learning. He has progressed from postdoctoral and research roles in Europe to industry-facing ML engineering at Recorded Future, and now leads both research and departmental strategy as Assistant Head of Department. His background includes a Dr.Ing. from TU Berlin and deep experience in AI, making him adept at turning theoretical models into practical systems. Colleagues value his blend of rigorous research, teaching, and hands-on engineering across universities and industry, and he often operates at the intersection of publishing novel research and guiding its real-world adoption. An understated strength is his sustained engagement with European research networks (including an ERCIM-affiliated Marie Curie fellowship), which informs his collaborative, multidisciplinary approach.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.Ing., Dr.Ing. at Technische Universität BerlinMaster of Science, Master of Science at Chalmers University of TechnologyFässbergsgymnasiet
English, Swedish, Polish, German
Github Skills (51)
evaluation10
mallet10
recommender-system10
document-processing10
ranking10
recommender10
keyword-extraction9
text-analysis9
semantics9
machine-learning9
extraction9
text-mining9
modification8
rdf8
modeling8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alansaid/alansaid.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
recommenders/rival
Nov 2013 - Oct 2017
RiVal recommender system evaluation toolkit
Contributions:1 release, 241 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 11 months
recommenderevaluationmachine-learningrankingrecommender-system
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