Oktie Hassanzadeh
Senior Research Scientist at IBM
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOktie Hassanzadeh is a senior research scientist at IBM Research AI with over two decades of software development experience and nearly 20 years of focused research in data management and the Semantic Web. She designs and builds large-scale information and knowledge management systems, leading academic and industrial projects that have produced 150+ publications, 70 peer-reviewed articles, and 27 patent applications. A seasoned mentor and educator, she teaches Fundamentals of Data Engineering at Columbia University, holds a Teaching in Higher Education certificate from the University of Toronto, and has supervised numerous graduate students and engineers. Her work spans practical AI system needs—extraction, integration, and curation of data—and deep scholarly impact evidenced by sustained contributions to link discovery and open drug data efforts. Recognized with multiple IBM and academic awards, she blends rigorous research with product-minded engineering to move novel data technologies toward real-world adoption.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of TorontoB. Eng., Software Engineering, B. Eng., Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
French, English
Github Skills (23)
evaluation10
datasets10
python9
benchmarking9
natural-language-processing9
vldb9
ai9
nlp9
mlops8
llm8
wikipedia7
clinical-trials7
causal7
riak6
relation-extraction6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oktie/oktie.github.io
Dec 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
oktie/linkedct
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Linked Clinical Trials (LinkedCT)
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
trialsclinical-trialsclinical
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