Behnam Shahbazi
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Dropbox
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBehnam Shahbazi is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building production ML systems, currently shaping search and relevance for Dropbox Dash for Business. He led Openpath’s first AI product—an on-edge voice assistant for video intercoms—and has deep expertise in speech/NLP model deployment, low-latency streaming optimizations, and scaling ML on constrained devices. His PhD from UCLA produced StoryMiner, an automated framework for narrative analysis applied to misinformation detection and summarization, reflecting a long-standing interest in extracting actionable signals from historical and social data. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has shipped solutions at startups and large enterprises (Motorola Solutions, Microsoft, Adobe), and is now exploring GenAI and RAG-based LLM chatbots for internal knowledge and QA. Colleagues note his blend of problem-solving, product focus, and a knack for turning academic ideas into practical, performant systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English
Github Skills (47)
bots10
google-assistant10
bot-framework10
conversations10
conversation9
facebook9
watson9
nlu9
natural-language-processing9
conversational-ai9
rasa9
spacy9
dialogue-systems9
voice9
chatbot9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Roychowdhury-group/FENESTRA-Fake-News-Structure-and-Threat-Assessment
May 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:50 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
behnam354/Story-Miner
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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