Arezoo Besharati
Co-Founder And Chief Product Officer at UrbanSim
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolArezoo Besharati is a product and technology leader who builds AI-driven tools that help cities make smarter, fairer, faster decisions about housing, zoning, and transportation. With nine years of experience and a PhD in City Planning from UC Berkeley, she has led product teams that delivered simulation tools now supporting regional plans for over 80 million people and adopted by half of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. She co-founded UrbanSim and scaled high-performance simulation features that cut runtimes by up to 95%, enabling planners to run complex scenarios in minutes and informing policy with academic-grade rigor. Equally at home in data science and product strategy, she has driven cross-functional teams to accelerate delivery, boost customer satisfaction, and translate research into operational software used by HUD and international partners. Known for a people-first leadership style, she focuses on practical, equity-driven solutions that bridge academia, government, and productized AI.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, City Planning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, City Planning at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree, City Planning, Master's degree, City Planning at UC Berkeley College of Environmental DesignMaster of Urban Design, Architectural Engineering, Master of Urban Design, Architectural Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University
English, Persian
Github Skills (14)
prediction-model6
visualization6
anova6
agent-based-modeling4
visual-analytics4
modeling-tool4
statistical-inference4
python3
simulation3
modeling3
statsmodels3
building-blocks3
flow-based-programming2
data-viz1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ual/urban-informatics-and-visualization
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Urban Informatics and Visualization (UC Berkeley CP255)
Contributions:25 pushes in 2 months
visual-analyticsurban-informaticsdata-vizuc-berkeleyberkeley
Arezoo-bz/Airbnb
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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