Zahra Shamsi
Lead Research Scientist Google Research
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolZahra Shamsi is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience bridging cutting-edge AI research and production software. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from UIUC and has a strong research pedigree in reinforcement learning, molecular dynamics, Markov state models, and protein dynamics that she brings to large-scale ML systems. At Google she progressed from AI Resident to Research Software Engineer and now to Senior SWE, translating novel algorithms into reliable, deployable code. Based in Mountain View, she combines deep theoretical expertise with practical engineering—often working at the intersection of computational biology and scalable ML—which enables her to tackle problems that demand both rigorous modeling and production-grade implementation. An early background in control theory and process dynamics gives her a unique systems perspective that informs how she designs robust, interpretable models.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS Chemical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Chemical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic
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Github Skills (10)
markov-model9
forecast8
forecasting8
feature-extraction8
clustering7
dimensionality-reduction7
pca7
cdc6
python5
statistical-models4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zshamsi2/General-MD-Codes
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:148 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
ShuklaGroup/Kinases
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 137 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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