Hossein Hamooni

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Hossein Hamooni is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn since August 2025, previously serving as a Staff Software Engineer and Senior Applied Scientist at Meta from August 2019 to August 2025, focusing on machine learning applications in user engagement and monetization. Prior experience includes a role as an ML Research Scientist at Visa from June 2017 to July 2019, where contributions were made to recommendation systems and fraud detection. Hossein's early career features research assistant positions at the University of New Mexico and internships at Visa and NEC Laboratories America, alongside co-founding Farazpardazan (BitArts) from 2010 to 2013. Academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of New Mexico, a Master's in Computer Networks, and a Bachelor's in Software Engineering, both from Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic.

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