Himan Abdollahpouri

AI Researcher

Chicago, Illinois, United States9 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Ph.D. in Computer/Information Science from a top university.
  • Over 10 years of experience in personalization algorithms.
  • Research on recommender systems with over 3500 citations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning expert specializing in Recommender Systems within the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningRecommender SystemsJava

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAnalyticsBankingC++Computer ScienceData MiningData ScienceE-commerceHibernateJUnitJava Enterprise EditionMavenMySQLPersonalizationProgramming

About

• Ph.D. in Computer/Information Science from the University of Colorado Boulder • 10+ years of experience in personalization and recommendation algorithms. • Experienced in machine learning, deep learning (both theory and practice), generative models, causal inference, and A/B test design. • Experienced with the end-to-end ML development and deployment process. • Led numerous research projects both in academia and industry. • Mentored PhD students both in academia and industry. • Skilled in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to address a wide range of Machine Learning tasks, with a focus on optimizing recommender systems and enhancing ranking algorithms. • An active member of the ML & recommender systems research community. My research on recommender systems has been highly influential and has garnered more than 3500 citations.

Experience

Spotify

2 roles

Senior Research Scientist

Promoted

May 2025Present · 10 mos

Research Scientist

Sep 2021May 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Ranking & recommendation algorithms
  • Causal inference & reward modeling
  • Multi-objective & multi-stakeholder optimization.
Machine LearningRecommender Systems

Northwestern university

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sep 2020Aug 2021 · 11 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Research on multi-objective recommender systems with a focus on news and e-commerce
Recommender SystemsMachine Learning

Spotify

Research Scientist Intern (Machine Learning)

Jun 2020Aug 2020 · 2 mos · New York, United States

  • Multi-objective optimization for balancing the exposure of different content types on Spotify Home.
Machine Learning

Pandora

2 roles

Data Science Intern

Jun 2018Sep 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Built a machine learning model to predict users' repeat consumption behavior
Machine Learning

Data Science Intern

Jun 2017Sep 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Proposed and developed a sequential model to balance music tracks and ads in sequential music recommendation
Machine Learning

Insight centre for data analytics

Research & Data Scientist

Apr 2014Dec 2014 · 8 mos · Ireland

Pardazeshgaran saman(spr)

Software Engineer

Jan 2013Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Iran

  • Backed engineer in Java

Tosan (kish ware)

Software Engineer

Jan 2011Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Iran

  • Backed engineer in Java
Java

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Computer and Information Sciences

Jan 2019Jan 2020

DePaul University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2018

Iran University of Science and Technology

Master's degree — Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Bu-Ali Sina University

Bachelor's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2009

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