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Kanan Bakirli is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal since August 2025, with a prior role as Manager - AI at Ascentt from November 2022 to August 2025, where significant contributions were made in developing advanced machine learning models and leading major GenAI initiatives for Toyota Motor North America. Kanan's experience includes positions such as Senior Principal AI Engineer, Data Scientist, and Machine Learning Engineer at Duke University, as well as Data Scientist at IBM and Business Analyst, Data Science at SOCAR Upstream Management International LLC. Kanan holds a Master of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence from Duke University, a Graduate Diploma in Mathematics from the University of London, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Essex.
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders. The company operates as a payment processor for online vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users, for which it charges a small fee in exchange for benefits such as one-click transactions and password memory.