Zayd Hammoudeh
Staff Applied Scientist at Qualtrics
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZayd Hammoudeh is a Staff Applied Scientist in Seattle with 11 years of experience bridging rigorous ML research and product-focused applied science. He designs general-purpose techniques for robust, trustworthy, and interpretable ML across images, text, speech, and tabular data, with a particular emphasis on provable robustness to training outliers and feature corruption. Zayd is also a specialist in training data attribution, applying robust-statistics principles (including semi-supervised settings) to explain model behavior and pinpoint influential training instances. His career spans academia (PhD in Computer Science) and industry roles advancing ML in production at Qualtrics, underpinned by earlier engineering work in wireless power and test systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who brings theoretical guarantees into deployable systems—and, notably, he’s a devoted cat enthusiast.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of OregonMaster's of Science, Computer Science, Master's of Science, Computer Science at San José State UniversityMaster's, Computer Engineering, Master's, Computer Engineering at Drexel UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (121)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
numpy10
neural-network10
tensor10
autograd10
shift10
machine-learning10
statistics9
latex9
fastai9
malware9
pytorch9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ZaydH/certified-regression
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
SaTML'23 Paper: "Reducing Certified Regression to Certified Classification for General Poisoning Attacks"
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 months
classification
ZaydH/spur
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
SPUR - Satisfying Perfectly Uniform Random sampler (Published at SAT-2018)
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 11 months
satspuraudiosampleruniform
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