Cem Sazara
Senior Data Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCem Sazara is a Senior Data Scientist in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and scaling ML and LLM-powered systems across advertising, recommender systems, and generative AI. He has driven sponsored products sourcing and recommendation at Amazon and helped teams adopt AWS generative AI services, and now focuses on recommender and NLP-driven products at ZoomInfo. Holding a PhD in Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation, he blends deep research rigor with hands-on applied science to move prototypes into production. As a longtime applied scientist and occasional consultant, he’s comfortable across the stack—from model architecture and evaluation to deployment and team training—and often surfaces practical, data-driven solutions that improve user-facing relevance and scalability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogazici UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation at Old Dominion University
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Github Skills (88)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cemsaz/NGSIM-trajectories
Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
aws-samples/aws-machine-learning-university-accelerated-nlp
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Machine Learning University: Accelerated Natural Language Processing Class
Contributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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