Mandana Saebi

Mandana Saebi

Machine Learning Engineer

Apple

Biography

I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple knowledge platform team. Prior to this, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Notre Dame. I am passionate about building ML solutions to solve real-world problems. In particular, I am interested in developing machine learning models for mining complex large-scale knowledge graphs.

Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Learning
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Meta-Learning

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2017 - 2021

    University of Notre Dame

  • MSc in Electrical Engineering, 2015 - 2016

    University of Notre Dame

  • BSc in Electrical Engineering, 2011 - 2015

    Iran University of Science & Technology

Skills

Python

R

Statistics

SQL

ArcGIS

PyTorch

AWS

PyTorch

Tensorflow

Spark

Microsoft Office

LaTeX

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Machine Learning Engineer

Apple

Sep 2021 – Present Seattle, WA
Design and develop robust and scalable systems for Apple Knowledge platform that touches upon large-scale data management, machine-learning systems over graph data, and knowledge extraction over semi-structured and unstructured data feeds.
 
 
 
 
 

Data Science Intern

Microsoft

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 Redmond, WA
Building machine learning models for predicting bid price in online auctions.
 
 
 
 
 

Machine Learning Intern

Apple

Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 Cupertino, CA
Developed a discriminative knowledge graph driven language model for improving automatic speech recognition performance using a more consistent, scalable and adaptable approach.
 
 
 
 
 

Data Science Intern

Tala

May 2019 – Aug 2018 Santa Monica, CA
Implemented a deep learning framework for unsupervised domain adaptation resulting in boosting the target domain predictions with no labeled data up to 5.7%; The model transfers knowledge from a country with rich financial labeled data to another country with no labeled data.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Reserch Assistant

University of Notre Dame

Jan 2017 – Aug 2021 Notre Dame, IN
Research was focused on building machine learning models for learning from large-scale graph-structured data. Past projects involved developing deep Learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning models for solving real-world problems such as question answering, relational reasoning, anomaly detection, representation learning, and chemical reaction yield prediction. See projects and publications for more details.

Accomplish­ments

Awarded full travel grant to attend Interpeech 2021

Awarded Full Grace Hopper 2019 Scholarship

Sequence Models

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Advanced SQL for Data Scientists

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NLP with Python for Machine Learning Essential Training

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Publications

A Discriminative Entity-Aware Language Model for Virtual Assistants

High-quality automatic speech recognition (ASR) is essential for virtual assistants (VAs) to work well. However, ASR often performs …

Network Analysis of Ship-borne Species Introduction and Dispersal in the Arctic

Rapid climate change has wide-ranging implications for the Arctic region, including sea ice loss, increased geopolitical attention, and …

Efficient modeling of higher-order dependencies in networks: from algorithm to application for anomaly detection

Complex systems, represented as dynamic networks, comprise of components that influence each other via direct and/or indirect …

Few-Shot Multi-Hop Relation Reasoning over Knowledge Bases

Multi-hop relation reasoning over knowledge base is to generate effective and interpretable relation prediction through reasoning …

Heterogeneous Relational Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs with Reinforcement Learning

Path-based relational reasoning over knowledge graphs has become increasingly popular due to a variety of down- stream applications …

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