Sonia Baee
Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSonia Baee is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building AI-powered productivity tools and research-driven ML systems. She moved from deep academic research at the University of Virginia into industry roles at Adobe and Apple, specializing in VLMs, LLMs, Agentic AI, and MLOps/VLMOps for digital media and user-facing features. Sonia has hands-on expertise across the ML lifecycle—data acquisition and quality assessment, metric design and evaluation, deployment, and in-app feedback pipelines—bridging product, research, and engineering teams. Her background includes developing evaluation frameworks that combine human and LLM judges and a data product for training/evaluation data quality, demonstrating a strong focus on measurable, production-ready model behavior. She pairs a PhD-level research mindset with practical implementation skills in Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, AWS, and full-stack tooling, often translating complex model insights into actionable product decisions. Notably, she has cultivated interdisciplinary collaborations—from clinical studies to large-scale A/B testing—bringing rigor and user-centered evaluation into generative AI features.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD student Computer Science Transferred, PhD student Computer Science Transferred at Texas Tech UniversityAmirkabir University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Virginia
Github Skills (56)
google-assistant9
bots9
menu9
densenet9
voice9
dialogue-systems9
neuroscience9
conversations9
bot-framework9
prediction9
nlp8
watson8
dialogflow8
chatbot8
python8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
soniabaee/MEDIRL-EyeCar
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:148 commits, 29 pushes, 8 comments in 2 years 10 months
dsac-club/workshops
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes in 17 days
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