Omid Kashefi
Software Engineer, AI ML NLP at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolOmid Kashefi is a software engineer specializing in ML and NLP with 15 years of industry and research experience and a PhD in AI from the University of Pittsburgh. He has driven applied NLP research and productization from academia to industry, most recently joining Meta after leading NLP research at ETS. His background spans founding an NLP startup, lecturing, and advisory roles, reflecting a blend of entrepreneurial initiative and rigorous research methodology. Omid consistently bridges theory and production—designing models and shipping scalable systems for real-world language tasks. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs deep technical expertise in problem solving and machine learning with a track record of mentoring teams and steering cross-disciplinary projects. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained involvement in language policy and standardization efforts early in his career, informing a pragmatic, culturally aware approach to NLP.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Iran University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of PittsburghGithub contributions (5)
omidkashefi/dependency_grammar_induction
Mar 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
omidkashefi/Mizan
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
MIZAN: a large persian-english parallel corpus
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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