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.
13 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 (28)
recommendation-system10
evaluation10
recommender-system10
java9
clustering9
rdf8
xml8
svd8
knn8
user-data8
document-classification8
wikibase8
rating8
topic-modeling8
information-extraction8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alansaid/files
Mar 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:13 pushes in 6 years 2 months
alansaid/alansaid.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
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