Summary
Youssef Biaz is a software engineer with a decade of experience building infrastructure for complex, integrated systems, currently contributing to the Google Assistant after earlier work on Play Movies. He combines a strong CS foundation (BS from USC, MS studies at Georgia Tech) with a creative background in film and virtual environments, which fuels his interest in procedurally generated stories, NLP, and learned ranking models. His research experience at NC State’s Liquid Narrative Group and USC labs reflects a rare blend of systems engineering and narrative/interactive media design. Based in Los Angeles, he enjoys collaborating on interdisciplinary problems where machine learning, storytelling, and real-time systems intersect, and he brings practical production experience integrating hardware, sensors, and virtual environments.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science - Viterbi School of Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science - Viterbi School of Engineering at University of Southern California
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
International Baccalaureate (I.B.), International Baccalaureate (I.B.) at Auburn High School
French, Spanish, Arabic