Pouya Sharifi, PhD, currently serves as Vice President and Machine Learning Scientist at Goldman Sachs, with previous experience as a Quantitative Engineer in Risk Strats. Academic roles include positions as a Teaching and Research Assistant, Assistant Teacher, and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Texas A&M University, where instruction focused on Engineering Economics. Additional educational experience includes serving as a Teacher Assistant at Sharif University of Technology for the course on System Analysis using the software Vensim. Pouya's early professional experience includes an internship as a Quality Control Analyst at Biscuit Salam Company and participation as a Data Science Fellow at Insight Data Science.