Taher Rahgooy
Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolTaher Rahgooy is a Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at Meta with nine years of experience bridging academic research and production ML, currently completing a PhD in Intelligent Systems and Robotics. He has a strong publication record with papers at EMNLP, NAACL and IJCAI and a research focus on learning cognitive models of decision making applied to recommender systems and preference learning. His background spans founding startups and building enterprise automation software to teaching and advancing multimodal spatial language understanding, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and rigorous experimentation. Based in Menlo Park, he combines deep theoretical expertise with hands-on systems design, uniquely positioning him to turn cognitive-model research into scalable product solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Intelligent Systems and Robotics at University of West FloridaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Tulane UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Ferdowsi University of MashhadBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Isfahan
Persian, Kurdish, English
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Github Skills (21)
entity-framework10
rollback10
linq9
expression-trees9
sql-server6
lambda6
asp-net6
sql6
extension-methods6
recurrent-neural-networks6
asp-net-mvc6
machine-learning6
reflection6
javascript6
spatial5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Rahgooy/saul
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:108 PRs, 228 pushes, 96 branches in 11 months
declarativemachine-learning
Rahgooy/author_masking
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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