Dan Melamed

Dan Melamed is a highly experienced software engineer specializing in machine learning, currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn since 2019, where leadership in projects related to Generative AI and natural language query understanding has been demonstrated. Previous roles include Member of Technical Staff at eBay, where work focused on the contextual bandit machine learning system, and Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research, contributing to the development of the world's first cloud service for machine learning from partial feedback. Dan has extensive experience in data science applications at Interactions LLC, advanced R&D projects at AT&T Labs, and academic experience as a Professor of Computer Science at New York University, alongside earlier work as a Systems Architect at West Group. Dan holds a PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Toronto.