Sina Aghaei
Machine Learning Researcher at Meta
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSina Aghaei is a machine learning researcher with nine years of experience at the intersection of ML, optimization, and causal inference, currently applying those skills as a researcher at Meta. He earned a PhD in Operations Research from USC and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where he enhanced in-context sequential decision-making of LLMs for healthcare through supervised fine-tuning. Sina has a track record of turning research into practical systems—from designing interpretable, fair prescriptive models for LA housing allocation to shipping regression-detection tools at Snap that won internal recognition. He blends strong theoretical foundations with production-minded engineering, making complex models robust, interpretable, and actionable. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a cross-disciplinary perspective that bridges academic rigor and real-world social impact.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Research at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian, Kurdish
Github Skills (2)
decision-tree5
inference3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
D3M-Research-Group/StrongTree
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
sinaaghaei/SPO
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 days
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