Iyad Batal

Iyad Batal is an accomplished engineering manager and principal machine learning engineer at Apple since June 2022, previously serving as a senior machine learning scientist at Microsoft from June 2016 to June 2022, focusing on personalized recommendation and user modeling for native advertisements. Prior experience includes a role as a research scientist at Yahoo, where Iyad worked on web query spelling correction, and as a machine learning researcher at GE, concentrating on time series analysis for sensor data and Bayesian optimization for oil production. Iyad's academic background includes a postdoctoral associate position at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in probabilistic graphical models for multi-label classification and structured prediction, and a PhD in computer science from the same institution, complemented by a BS in computer science from Damascus University.