Taher Ghasimakbari
Senior Data Scientist
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaher Ghasimakbari is a Senior Data Scientist at Meta with 13 years of experience blending rigorous physics research and production-grade quantitative finance. He built end-to-end alpha research pipelines and market-neutral long/short strategies at a multi-hundred-million-dollar quant hedge fund, and now applies experimentation and ML at scale within Meta. Taher’s background includes a PhD in Physics, pioneering computational studies of polymer dynamics, and authoring high-performance C/C++ and CUDA simulation tools—skills he translates into robust, high-throughput data products. Comfortable across the stack from raw data acquisition to live monitoring, he brings a rare combination of theoretical rigor, hands-on systems engineering, and proven P&L impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Arabic, English, Azerbaijani, Persian, French, Turkish
Github Skills (3)
monte-carlo8
simulation7
dynamics7
Github contributions (5)
TaherGhasimakbari/simpatico
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
molecular-dynamics-simulationliquidsmolecular-dynamicssimulationmolecular
dmorse/simpatico
Jul 2012 - Jul 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 2 years
liquidsmolecular-dynamicssimulationmolecularmonte-carlo
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