Ghodrat Aalipour

Ghodrat Aalipour's work experience includes a role as Lead Data Scientist at Securiti, where they focus on data security, privacy, governance, and compliance. Prior to that, they worked as an Applied Scientist at Amazon, specializing in transformers-based retrieval and ranking for question answering. Ghodrat also has experience as a Staff Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech, where they applied NLP models to the Conversational Assistant and led projects involving conversational search refinements and building a Product Knowledge Graph. Additionally, they have held roles as a Machine Learning Intern at Juniper Networks, Adjunct Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Advanced Analytics & Data Science Intern at Excellus BCBS. Ghodrat has also worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Colorado Denver, conducting research projects and teaching various courses. Ghodrat started their career as an Assistant Professor at Kharazmi University.

Ghodrat Aalipour holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Shahrekord University, which they obtained from 2002 to 2006. Ghodrat then pursued a Master's Degree in Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology from 2006 to 2008. Following this, they completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mathematics from the same university between 2008 and 2013. Later on, Ghodrat attended the Rochester Institute of Technology, where they achieved a Master's Degree in Computer Science from 2016 to 2018. In addition to their formal education, they have obtained several certifications in various areas, such as data science and Python programming.