Farhad Shakerin
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolFarhad Shakerin is a Principal Software Engineer with a rare blend of research rigor and production experience, currently at Microsoft after rising through senior engineering and data science roles. He holds advanced graduate training from The University of Texas at Dallas where his PhD/postdoc work produced the open-source SHAP_FOLD system and won an NSF grant for explainable, logic-based ML. His research marries inductive logic programming, SHAP explanations, and high-utility itemset mining to produce non-monotonic logic programs that capture global model behavior—bringing symbolic reasoning to contemporary ML. Before academia he spent eight years building safety-critical C++ systems for Tehran metro signaling that still operate at scale, evidencing a track record of dependable engineering. He is passionate about non-neural NLU, commonsense reasoning with ASP and knowledge graphs, and translating formal methods into practical software. Colleagues know him for bridging traditional AI and modern ML in ways that make models both powerful and auditable.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology
English
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Github Skills (37)
nuget10
datetime10
parser10
entity-extraction10
sentence10
python10
microsoft10
prefix10
arabic-nlp10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
lda10
mining10
date-parser10
timex10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fxs130430/SHAP_FOLD
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Learning Non-Monotonic Logic Programs From Statistical Models Using High-Utility Itemset Mining
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 9 months
miningstatisticalmachine-learningmonotonicprograms
fxs130430/azure-rest-api-specs
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:58 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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