Ali Sharifi-zarchi
Chair Of The International Scientific Committee (ISC)
Tehran, Tehran Province, Other
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Top SchoolAli Sharifi-zarchi is an accomplished bioinformatics and AI academic leader with 11 years of professional experience, serving as Assistant Professor at Sharif University of Technology and currently chairing the International Scientific Committee for the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence. His career blends deep research (PhD in Bioinformatics, postdoc work at Colorado State and Max Planck) with practical leadership—founding NeuraLab, co-founding a research group, and earlier building a successful ATM software company where he rose from developer to CEO. He frequently shapes international programming and AI education through long-term roles on IOI/IOAI scientific committees, demonstrating a rare mix of pedagogy, competition design, and technical rigor. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he leads interdisciplinary teams in computational biology, machine learning, and software development. An understated strength is his track record of scaling technical initiatives across research labs, startups, and global educational events, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and institutional influence.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc Bioinformatics & Artificial Intelligence, Postdoc Bioinformatics & Artificial Intelligence at Colorado State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at University of TehranResearch Associate Bioinformatics, Research Associate Bioinformatics at Max Planck Institute for Molecular BiomedicineM.Sc. Computer Engineering, M.Sc. Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Github Skills (16)
probability10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyter10
persian10
python9
computer-engineering9
ai9
machine-learning9
artificial-intelligence9
statistics9
data-science8
data-structures7
command-line-interface5
tps5
cli4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SharifiZarchi/Probability_Statistics
May 2019 - Sep 2022
دورهی آمار و احتمال مهندسی، برای دانشجویان
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 4 months
statisticspythonpersiandata-sciencepersian-language
SharifiZarchi/Data_Structures_Algorithms
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Jupyter Notebooks for Data Structures & Algorithms (Persian Language)
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 9 months
pythonpersiandata-sciencepersian-languagenotebooks
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