About

Mostafa A. is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Google with over 9 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently leading the modeling efforts for open-domain question answering, question ranking, entity relevance, and Multitask Unified Model (MUM) at Google Search. He is also leading the effort for the next generation MUM models at Google Search. Mostafa has worked on and led different parts of various projects, from data collections to model training and productionisation, which have significantly increased the quality and coverage of Google Search products in the past years, unlocking new possibilities in the Search org. He has led the "People Also Ask" team to launch multiple models in the past 2 years, which increased the CTR by XX% and coverage by YY%. He also led/launched the first online model for entity ranking at Google Search, which increased the coverage by XX% and quality by Y%. Mostafa has a Master's degree in Software & Machine Intelligence from Virginia Tech and a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the same university. Mostafa's interests lie in Deep Learning, Natural Language Understanding, Computer Vision, Recommendation Systems, Multimodal Models, Large Language Models, Question Answering, Object Detection, Low Latency Models, Self-Driving Cars, and Machine Learning. He is highly skilled in Deep Learning, ML, Search, Software Engineering, Recommendation Systems, Object Detection, Computer Vision, Language Models, LLM, and Research Science. Prior to joining Google, Mostafa worked as a Deep Learning Intern at Nvidia, where he worked on the BB8 Project, an end-to-end deep learning approach for self-driving cars. He also worked as a Research Software Engineer at Brown University. Overall, Mostafa is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in Deep Learning and Machine Learning. He has a proven track record of leading and contributing to various projects that have significantly improved the quality and coverage of Google Search products.