Iman Mirrezaei is a Senior Data Science Manager with 14 years of experience building production-grade NLP and ML systems for retail and healthcare at companies like Walmart and Amazon. He leads high-impact AI initiatives such as Walmart’s customer-facing agent Sparky and has deep expertise in conversational AI, knowledge-grounded LLMs, multimodal retrieval, and real-time pipelines using Kafka and Kubernetes. His background spans clinical information extraction and semantic web research from a PhD-level foundation, enabling him to bridge academic methods (ontology matching, SPARQL) with pragmatic engineering (TensorFlow, Docker). Known for shipping low-latency neural solutions—such as real-time medical spell correction and multilingual joint NLU models—he combines hands-on modeling with team leadership to turn complex language understanding problems into scalable products.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
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