Reza Zadeh

Reza Zadeh is the Founder and CEO of Matroid since January 2016, with a focus on developing innovative solutions in the field of machine learning. In addition, Reza serves as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, teaching and conducting research in computational mathematics for doctorate students since July 2014. As a member of the founding team at Databricks since November 2013, Reza contributed to the development of distributed machine learning technologies. Previous experience includes a role as a Senior Data Scientist at Twitter from May 2011 to July 2013, working on machine learning for recommendations while pursuing a PhD, and earlier positions as a Financial Engineer intern at Morgan Stanley, a Researcher intern at Google, and a Software Engineer intern at IBM. Reza holds a Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics from Stanford University, a Master's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo.