Ali Ghias
Senior GenAI Algorithm Engineer at NVIDIA
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli 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—designing multi-objective offline RL for Prime Video and patented query-rewriting and seq2seq models for Alexa—that 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.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biomedical Engineering, PhD Biomedical Engineering at EPFLBSc Mechanical Engineering, BSc Mechanical Engineering at University of TehranMSc Mechanical Engineering, MSc Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Github Skills (51)
r-package10
python10
iot10
raspberry-pi10
jupyter9
brms9
asyncio9
mqtt9
statistical-models9
bayesian9
bayesian-inference9
rcppeigen9
home-automation9
stan9
language-model8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NeuralPensieve/NeuralPensieve.github.io
Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
alireza202/TOBI
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 2 months
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