Afshin Rahimi

Afshin Rahimi is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa, specializing in Natural Language Processing, Social Network Analysis, and Machine Learning. They previously served as a Lecturer at The University of Queensland and held various research and teaching positions at the University of Melbourne. In addition to their roles in academia, they have worked as a Data Analytics Intern at Telstra, where they focused on predicting customer behavior, and as a Java Developer at Telecomfeed, where they led a team to enhance a web search engine's performance. Afshin earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, focusing on multiview learning for the demographic analysis of social media users.