Summary
Ali Salman is a PhD candidate and research assistant specializing in artificial intelligence for medicine and healthcare with nine years of hands-on experience across academia and industry. He has built production ML systems—from search engines and legal-document retrieval tools to an industrial chatbot demoed at TechCrunch Disrupt—and published deep-learning work on video-based wound-healing classification. His background spans roles at Google (search/metadata engineering), UCSC (researcher with top-20% Kaggle placement), and startups where he led end-to-end ML product development and compliance efforts. Comfortable moving models into real systems, he combines expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and medical imaging with cloud and data engineering skills. Based in Tuscany, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and practical product delivery, including creating a sub-minute batch retrieval tool that runs in RAM for fast indexing and search.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Università di Siena
University of California Santa Cruz
English