Mehrdad Yazdani
Machine Learning Engineer at Refined Computing
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMehrdad Yazdani is a Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience applying research-driven methods to production ML problems, most recently leading modeling, evaluation, and tooling across WhatsApp integrity, GenAI, and recommendation at Meta. He specializes in preference learning, reward modeling, off-policy evaluation, retrieval, and optimization, and enjoys designing precise objectives, thoughtful experiments, and diagnosing failure modes that generalize beyond single products. His background spans academic research—from a PhD in Intelligent Systems to postdoctoral work in computational neuroscience—to industry roles improving real-world systems and developer workflows. Notably, he blends deep theoretical grounding (sparse optimal control, convex optimization) with hands-on system improvements like architecture exploration, hyperparameter and data-quality analysis, and cross-functional launch readiness. Based in Los Angeles, he gravitates toward problems where careful evaluation and objective design unlock robust, scalable ML solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, Persian
Github Skills (32)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
gpu9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
jax8
numpy8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
myazdani/data-analysis-for-ml
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
myazdani/SkiCaffe
Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.