Summary
Ali Ghias is a Senior GenAI Algorithm Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable AI systems across industry and research, now applying his expertise at NVIDIA after leading ML efforts at Amazon. He has driven large personalization initiatives鈥攄esigning multi-objective offline RL for Prime Video and patented query-rewriting and seq2seq models for Alexa鈥攖hat directly improved user experience at scale and influenced org-level investment and hiring. His background spans applied research in recommender systems, forecasting and pricing, genomics, and biomechanical modeling, reflecting a rare blend of deep academic rigour (PhD, postdoc) and product-focused ML delivery. Based in Seattle, he is particularly interested in reinforcement learning, LLMs, personalization, NLP and robotics, and recently returned from a year of intensive professional development and global travel, ready to lead ambitious AI projects.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biomedical Engineering, PhD Biomedical Engineering at EPFL
BSc Mechanical Engineering, BSc Mechanical Engineering at University of Tehran
MSc Mechanical Engineering, MSc Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology