Omid Setayeshfar
Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmid Setayeshfar is a research scientist with a Ph.D. in computer science and over a decade of experience applying AI, data science, and security to real-world systems. He designs scalable deep-learning solutions for system security and provenance tracking, extracting patterns from multi-terabyte graph and tabular datasets using tools from PySpark and Neo4j to LSTMs and convolutional models. His work spans academia and industry, including research roles at Meta and NEC Labs, two patents, and leadership of graduate student programs that significantly increased mentorship engagement. A pragmatic builder, he has shipped enterprise software, consumer apps with 100K+ active users, and regularly competes in Kaggle where he’s placed in the top hundreds. He thrives in multidisciplinary teams, mentors others, and balances research with hands-on tinkering—fixing cars and creating AI models in his spare time. Based in Menlo Park, he combines deep theoretical expertise with a proven track record of shipping practical, secure ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Software Engineering, First of class, BS, Computer Software Engineering, First of class at Shahid Chamran UniversityUniversity of GeorgiaHigh School Diploma, Mathematics and Physics, Less than 1% acceptance rate, High School Diploma, Mathematics and Physics, Less than 1% acceptance rate at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
English, Persian, Arabic
Github Skills (20)
intellij-platform6
intellij-plugin6
jetbrains6
intellij6
cuckoo5
latex5
system-analysis5
sandbox5
journal4
seccomp4
security4
malware4
docker3
creative-commons3
open-access3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
omid-s/cyber_deception
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:312 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 6 months
omid-s/leetcodejungle
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:81 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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