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New York, NY (remote) & Cambridge, MA Dec. 2023 – present

Salesforce Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Aug. 2022 – Nov. 2023

Senior Software Engineer

Nov. 2019 – July 2022

Software Engineer

Acqui-hired by Salesforce in fall of 2019 as part of acquisition of Diffeo
Presented data science results to top executives to demonstrate product launch readiness for Salesforce's Einstein Relationship Insights (ERI)
Implemented ML models for discovering useful relationships from unstructured data sources, a key feature of ERI
Designed and implemented in-house microservice for serving ML predictions
Spearheaded a data curation team to build datasets used for training ML models, evaluating product quality, and motivating other product improvements
Implemented tooling for automatic quantitative evaluations of ERI

Cambridge, MA Jan. 2018 – Oct. 2019

Diffeo Software Engineer

Improved Diffeo's primary entity coreference model, including cross-lingual predictions
Stewarded the standardization of coreference resolution in different parts of the system
Implemented locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithms for document deduplication, subject to speed/storage constraints

June 2016 – Sept. 2016

Machine Learning Systems Engineering Intern

Implemented the core entity-linking algorithm used in Diffeo's document processing pipeline

Kawasaki, Japan July 2015 – Sept. 2015

Fujitsu Laboratories R&D Intern

Implemented an unsupervised relation extraction system to extract attribute-value pairs from text
Executed a research project to design and implement a probabilistic classification system that took natural language descriptions (e.g. Wikipedia abstracts) and placed them in a hierarchical class ontology

Tokyo, Japan June 2014 – August 2014

Internet Business Japan Co., Ltd. Web Development Intern

Designed and implemented website redesign for the Japanese American Association of New York
Created educational web applications for use in the company's web development classes

Cambridge, MA Jan. 2015 – May 2016

MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Undergraduate Researcher in InfoLab Group

Implemented paraphrasal query expansion and automatic corpus annotation for the group's Q&A system ElasticSTART
Designed and implemented a prototype search engine for retrieving videos from edX (MIT's MOOC platform)

June 2013 – Jan. 2014

Undergraduate Researcher in Genesis Group

Improved group's natural language generator by adding modifying clauses to produce richer, more meaningful descriptions
Implemented natural language generation for annotating visual scenes from videos

Cambridge, MA Sept. 2016 – Sept. 2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering

Thesis: Extracting Diverse Attribute-Value Information from Product Catalog Text via Transfer Learning
GPA: 5.0/5.0
Select coursework: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Bayesian Methods

Sept. 2012 – June 2016

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering

GPA: General – 4.4/5.0, Major – 4.5/5.0
Select coursework: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Linguistics, Symbolic Systems, Software/Systems Engineering, Cognitive Robotics

Monticello, IL Sept. 2019

Contrastive Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis Abdi-Hakin Dirie, Abubakar Abid, and James Zou

Paper link: https://proceedings.allerton.csl.illinois.edu/media/files/0189.pdf
Presented at the 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
Smaller work presented at the Modeling and Decision-making in the Spatiotemporal Domain workshop (NeurIPS 2018, Montreal)

Systems and method for investigating relationships among entities

Abdi-Hakin A. Dirie