Summary
Omid Madani is a seasoned machine learning researcher and engineer with 10+ years building large-scale learning systems across industry leaders including Google, Cisco, Yahoo!, and SRI. He led ML efforts for YouTube-scale multimodal learning and was a founding member and ML chief for Cisco’s Tetration Analytics, architecting data-center “nervous system” capabilities for security and operations. Currently exploring “prediction games,” he focuses on unsupervised cumulative learning that links low-level perception to high-level concepts—continuing a long-running interest in multiclass and large-scale prediction. With a PhD and postdoc in computer science, Omid blends rigorous academic foundations with a decade of production ML at scale. Based in Mountain View, he combines deep research instincts with practical system-building, often working at the sensor-to-enforcer boundary of inference and control. An intriguing throughline in his career is sustained curiosity about how learning and inference processes bridge raw sensory input to structured knowledge.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc, Postdoc at University of Alberta
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Washington
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of Houston
Saddleback College