Iftekhar Naim
Senior Staff Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolIftekhar Naim is a Senior Staff Engineer at Google DeepMind with 11 years of experience bridging research and production in NLP and ML. He holds a PhD from the University of Rochester and has driven applied research at Google since 2015, progressing from NLP researcher to senior engineering leadership roles. His current work focuses on retrieval with large language models, particularly multimodal retrieval and long-context agentic systems that build richer contextual understanding. Comfortable moving between deep research and scalable engineering, he has a track record of shipping production ML systems and mentoring teams. Based in Mountain View, he blends academic rigor with product-minded execution, often surfacing practical innovations from research into deployed systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of RochesterNotredame CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bengali, EnglishGithub contributions (2)
iftekharnaim/GenerativeVideoToTextAlignment
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
iftekharnaim/MSA-Scribe
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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