Highlights
Education
Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Algorithms for Linear and Nonlinear Approximation of Large Data, Ph.D. Dissertation, May 2007.
M.S., Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Yale University, cum laude and Distinction in the major, 1999.
A Verilog Behavioral Simulation of the Ultrascalar Processor, Thesis, May 1999.
Bishop's School, Amman, Jordan. Graduated with Honors, 1995.
Publications
Patents
Work Experience
May 2021 - present, Level. New York, NY.
Head of Engineering
Building Level's Benefits and Transactions Platform (see linkedin post).
Leading Engineering and Data Teams.
July 2007 - May 2021, Google. New York, NY.
Tech Lead and Manager, October 2019 - present, Google Payments
Architected the transaction processing and serving infrastructure that powers Google's new financial platform powering GPay (highlights from launch event).
Tech Lead and Manager, October 2014 - October 2019, Google Search
Led development and quality of search exploration and discovery features around entity queries.
Launched rich result snippetting based on understanding of structured constructs on web results.
Designed and led highly scalable search quality signals infrastructure.
Software Engineer, July 2007 - October 2014, Google Research
Built the first language model as part of the small team that conceived and launched Google Search by Voice.
Led development and launch of the scalable streaming engine behind Google Search by Voice.
Developed system and infrastructure for semantic understanding of structured information on web results.
May 2006 - August 2006, Yahoo! Research. Santa Clara, CA.
Research Intern, Theory Group.
Conducted research on matrix sampling techniques for provably approximating large regression problems (see the SIAM paper); and applied these techniques for supervised learning and classification of large data (see the KDD07 paper).
August 1999 - August 2002, Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA.
Senior Software Design Engineer - Oracle9i, Internet File System (iFS), Oracle Manufacturing.
Designed and implemented a database schema upgrade framework using Java for iFS and Oracle Files Online (a web content management and collaboration application).
Designed and developed Mobile Applications for use on wireless, thin-client manufacturing devices.
May 1998 - August 1998, Microsoft Corporation. Redmond, WA.
Software Design Engineer - Microsoft Office, Excel Group.
Awards
Google Operating Committe Award, Google Voice Search, 2010.
Google Outstanding Paper for publication on Voice Search language modeling, 2010.
Google Student Award winner, NYAS 2nd Annual Machine Learning Symposium, 2007.
NIH Training Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2003 - 2005.
CIS Department Chair's Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society, Initiated 2002.
Faculty of Engineering Edward O. Lanphier Memorial Prize, Yale University, 1999.
Yale College William J. Morden Scholarship, Yale University, 1998 - 1999.
Professional Affiliations
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.