About

Samira Daruki is a Research Engineer in Machine Learning at Google, where she is involved in research and engineering. She is currently working on developing deep learning models for search ranking, including query, document, and image understanding. She is also working on multi-modal vision-language models and representation learning, as well as graph representation learning. Before joining Google, Samira worked as an Applied Research Scientist at Expedia, where she focused on data science, machine learning algorithms, and optimization. She developed scalable machine learning models and optimization algorithms for online auctions and meta-search ranking. She also worked as a Research Scientist Intern at Yahoo Research Labs, Search and Content Science. Samira holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science, Algorithms, and Data from the University of Utah. She also earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology. Her education and experience have given her strong skills in algorithms, theory, machine learning, and deep learning. Samira's tech stack includes research scientist, machine learning, deep learning, search, language models, and data scientist. She has 5.96 years of relevant experience in the field. Overall, Samira is a highly skilled and experienced Research Engineer in Machine Learning, with a strong background in data science and optimization.