Yazan Billeh
Senior Director, Data Science
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYazan Billeh is a Senior Director of Data Science in Seattle with a PhD in Computational Neuroscience and over a decade of experience translating advanced research into production ML products. He has grown and led teams of up to 16 data scientists and analysts across forecasting, traffic, sales, and NLP divisions, driving product launches and a 144% expansion in retailer coverage. At Stackline he built core pipelines from scratch—powering weekly search-volume estimates for millions of terms and forecasting traffic for hundreds of millions of products—while operationalizing vision and NLP classifiers at scale. Previously at the Allen Institute he led large-scale brain modeling programs, produced experimentally validated predictions, and published widely, bridging computational neuroscience and applied machine learning. Known for mentoring senior engineers and creating internal knowledge forums, he pairs deep theory with practical delivery across AWS and Airflow-driven production systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Biomedical Engineering, Master's Degree Biomedical Engineering at University of MichiganBachelor's Degree Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College LondonCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, Arabic, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
simulation9
neuroscience9
modeling9
python8
simulation-framework8
agent-based-modeling8
computational-neuroscience8
powerpoint6
open-data6
machine-learning6
vba6
data-format6
decomposition6
nwb5
open-science5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saskiad/direction_flipping
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:90 PRs, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
CellAssembly/Rate_networks
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:67 commits, 50 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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