About

Hadi Minooei is a highly accomplished Director of Machine Learning and AI at Salesforce, with over 18 years of relevant experience in the field. He specializes in managing machine learning and data science teams, and has expertise in supervised and unsupervised machine learning on structured and unstructured data. Hadi is well-versed in a wide range of models and tools, including random forest, gradient boosting, logistic regression, time-series, k-mean, deep learning (CNN, LSTM, BERT, T5, ELMo, Transformers), NLP, NLU, LTR (learning to rank), Tensorflow, pytorch, Python, Scala, Java, Spark, SparkML, R, Airflow, AWS, EC2, EMR, S3, Redshift, Google Cloud, Gcs, Dataproc, BigQuery, BigTable, Spanner, and Hadoop. Hadi has an industrial and academic background in FinTech, NLP, AI, Ad-Auctions, Mechanism Design, Algorithmic Game Theory, Strategic Games, Optimization & Approximation Algorithms, Statistical Analysis, Big Data, Portfolio Optimization, and Software Engineering. He holds a PhD in Mechanism Design from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology. Prior to joining Salesforce, Hadi founded AILAND, a consulting business in the AI+NLP space that provides domain experts to clients who are looking to benefit from recent advances in this area and especially benefit from their textual/unstructured data. He has also served as the Director of Machine Learning & Data Science at Bitvore. Hadi's tech stack includes AI, ML, Salesforce, NLP, AWS, BERT, NLU, Random Forest, CNN, Data Scientist, Deep Learning, Spark, Apache Airflow, Big Data, Tensorflow, Hadoop, Pytorch, Software Engineer, Python, Scala, and Java. He is a skilled leader and a valuable asset to any team he works with.