Summary
Hamed Seyed-allaei is an applied scientist and data practitioner with a 12-year career bridging academic research and industry, currently driving ML efforts at Zalando after impactful data science leadership at Delivery Hero. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in statistical and biological physics, he blends rigorous modeling and computational neuroscience intuition to solve product and business problems—evidenced by a 10% Google Ads spend optimization and a reinforcement-learning-based customer compensation system. He is a Kaggle Top 300 competitor and experienced mentor who has taught graduate courses and guest-lectured on data science and ML. An entrepreneur at heart, Hamed has founded and run small ventures that channel his curiosity into creative products, showing a rare mix of research depth, production ML, and product-minded experimentation. Based in Berlin, he thrives on translating complex math into actionable product features across international teams and markets.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma Physics & Mathematics, High school diploma Physics & Mathematics at Kamal highschool
MSc Solid State Physics, MSc Solid State Physics at Iran University of Science and Technology
Ph.D. Statistical and Biological Physics, Ph.D. Statistical and Biological Physics at SISSA
BSc Physics, BSc Physics at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian, Italian