Amir Zandieh

Amir Zandieh, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at Google since October 2024, with prior experience as an Applied Researcher at eBay, focusing on product knowledge bases, and as an Applied Scientist at Zalando, where efforts centered on bid optimization for performance marketing. Zandieh completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, proposing the KDEformer model, which enhanced efficiency for developing LLMs and vision transformers. A PhD holder from Carnegie Mellon University, Zandieh has a strong background in computer science, further established by significant contributions during time as a Scientific Collaborator at EPFL and a Visiting Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon. Educational credentials include dual BSc degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology.