Emerson A. Azarbakht, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- Built several recommender systems, for member to content matching (including Article to Article, Feed Post to Article, Member to Article), deployed on LinkedIn's flagship product.- Led cross-functional fast-paced efforts and delivered Project X's first EBR-based recommender system, to match AI-generated with Human-in-the-Loop Collaborative Articles with knowledge experts and knowledge seekers.- AI POC for the cross-functional collaboration between ML Engineers, SWEs, PMs, TPMs and Directors/leads within the SEO initiative.- Proposed several product ideas/visions to grow LinkedIn's business/products.- Mentored junior and senior engineers on their career growth.

Los Angeles, California, Us

- Lead a team of scientists to build an internal system for monitoring privacy metrics- Mentored junior engineers on career growth - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data collection and analysis strategies, to identify trends, patterns, and user behavior insights that formed privacy improvements

Sunnyvale, California, Us

- Built deep learning multi-class classifiers using BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) for Natural Language Processing (NLP) task of email classification, which improved & extended the production model significantly- Performed statistical analyses on large data sets, identify problems, and propose solutions- Dived deeply into data and user behavior to identify optimization strategies, to understand strategic problems, and to apply patterns, all while maintaining a sense of the big picture- Proposed innovative ideas to improve the performance and quality of learned systems- Worked closely with colleagues on engineering teams to put research results into action- Provided thought leadership to guide the direction of products and services

Corvallis, Or, Us

- Helped 1,070 post-baccalaureate students switch careers and get CS jobs.- Developed a course for the OSU Online CS program (Ranked #7 in the United States) - People managed 26 Graduate Teaching Assistants. - Received Vice Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching.- Brought 1.9 million dollars revenue to the department.Instructor for:* Open Source Software Development (CS 464) 2017* User Experience Design (CS 352) 2014-2016

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science