Siavash Alemzadeh
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Uber
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolSiavash Alemzadeh is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building and deploying production ML systems, currently contributing to Uber after a multi-year impact at Microsoft. He specializes in end-to-end ML pipelines, from data onboarding and counterfactual evaluation to latency-optimized LLM-driven recommendation services and RL-based personalizers that served hundreds of campaigns and billions of impressions. His background spans applied research in human-centered reinforcement learning and multiagent control from a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics, bringing rigorous modeling and control-theoretic insights to product teams. Siavash also mentors and teaches practitioners as an ML instructor, translating advanced concepts into practical skills for engineers. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research and deployment—improving model throughput, reducing latency, and integrating vision and language features to boost real-world metrics. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines academic depth with a track record of scalable, user-facing AI solutions.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of WashingtonMaster's degree Statistics, Master's degree Statistics at Penn State World CampusBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
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Github contributions (5)
siavash91/TC-DQN
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:105 commits, 79 pushes in 5 months
siavash91/Td-INDP-NN
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:87 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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