Ghulam Ansari
Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning at IEEE
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolGhulam Ansari is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and AI with a decade of experience building high-impact recommender, detection, and evaluation systems at LinkedIn and IBM Research. He leads cross-functional teams on LinkedIn’s Topicality L1 initiative, driving measurable gains in engagement and topical relevance while also shepherding system stability and incident mitigation at scale. His prior work includes a widely adopted Off-Policy Evaluation framework that improved offline-online metric consistency by 600% and a Gold Content explore-exploit system that boosted daily unique professional interactions. A founding member of LinkedIn’s Misinformation AI team, he developed GNN-based viral spam and image near-duplicate detectors that helped prevent roughly half a million weekly member impacts. Trained at IIT Madras and published in top AI venues, Ghulam blends deep learning and reinforcement learning research with production engineering and holds multiple patents pending in recommender evaluation. He combines rigorous academic grounding with pragmatic delivery, often optimizing both model accuracy and system-level efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasSecondary School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Secondary School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at FIIT-JEE Junior College
English, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Sanskrit, Arabic
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Github Skills (21)
python9
machine-learning9
imperative8
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
induction7
scroll6
minecraft6
cli5
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
malmo5
nlp4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CIPITR/CIPITR
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Complex Imperative Program Induction from Terminal Rewards
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes in 7 months
program-inductionimperativerewardsinductionterminal
AhmedAnsari/Tensorflow-Hacks
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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