Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Gemini Post-Training (September 2024 – Present)

• Core Contributor to Gemini Releases: Played a pivotal, direct role in the post-training pipelines and successful launch of flagship Gemini models over the past year.

• Lead Factuality & Grounding Pipelines Direct end-to-end model improvement initiatives—spanning large-scale data collection, robust evaluations, SFT, and RL—specifically designed to penalize hallucinations, enforce factual grounding, and improve the verifiable reliability of Gemini models.

Senior Software Engineer – Machine Learning (April 2020 – September 2024)

• Developed and deployed advanced graph learning algorithms that automatically detected and removed abusive content, accelerated escalation handling, and significantly improved overall platform safety.

• Directed the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple large-scale ML classifiers, taking them from foundational research to active production and ongoing monitoring.

Post-Doctoral Fellow (Dec 2016-March 2020), Inference, Information and Decision Systems Group, Yale Institute for Network Science.

• I was fortunate to work with a group of prominent researchers (including my adviser Amin Karbasi) on a broad set of machine learning problems such as scalable submodular optimization, applications of deep learning in computational biology and fairness.

 Ph.D., Computer, Communication and Information Sciences (2011-2016), Thesis title: “Network Alignment: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications”, Laboratory for Computer Communications and Applications (LCA4), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

 Ph.D. candidate, Computer, Communication and Information Sciences (2010-2011), Unaffiliated Ph.D. student,  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Laboratory for Computer Communications and Applications (LCA1).

 MS.c., Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems (2008-2010), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

 BS.c., Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems (2004-2008), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

W. Li, M. Feldman, E. Kazemi, and A. Karbasi. Submodular Maximization in Clean Linear Time. NeurIPS, 2022.

E. Kazemi, S. Minaee, M. Feldman, and A. Karbasi. Regularized Submodular Maximization at Scale. ICML, 2021. [video]

C. Harshaw, E. Kazemi, M. Feldman, and A. Karbasi. The Power of Subsampling in Submodular Maximization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.02772, 2021. Mathematics of Operations Research.

P. Khosravi, M. Lysandrou, M. Eljalby, Q. Li, E. Kazemi, P. Zisimopoulos, A. Sigaras, et al. "A Deep Learning Approach to Diagnostic Classification of Prostate Cancer Using Pathology–Radiology Fusion." Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2021.

A. Badanidiyuru, A. Karbasi, E. Kazemi, and J. Vondrak. Submodular Maximization Through Barrier Functions. NeurIPS, 2020 (spotlight presentation). [video] [slides] [poster]

R. Haba, E. Kazemi, M. Feldman, and A. Karbasi. Streaming Submodular Maximization under a k-Set System Constraint. ICML, 2020. [video] [slides]

H. Chang, T. D. Nguyen, S. K. Murakonda, E. Kazemi, and R. Shokri. On Adversarial Bias and the Robustness of Fair Machine Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.08669, 2020.

M. Mitrovic, E. Kazemi, M. Feldman,  A. Krause, and A. Karbasi. Adaptive Sequence Submodularity. NeurIPS, 2019. [code] [poster]

E. Kazemi, M. Mitrovic, M. Zadimoghaddam, S. Lattanzi, and A. Karbasi. Submodular Streaming in All Its Glory: Tight Approximation, Minimum Memory and Low Adaptive Complexity. ICML, 2019. [code] [poster]

S. Ghili, E. Kazemi, and A. Karbasi. Eliminating Latent Discrimination: Train Then Mask. AAAI, 2019 (oral presentation). [slides] [poster]

E. Kazemi and M. Grossglauser. MPGM: Scalable and Accurate Multiple Network Alignment. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2019. [appendix] [publisher link]

P. Khosravi, E. Kazemi, Q. Zhan, J. E. Malmsten, M. Toschi, P. Zisimopoulos, A. Sigaras, S. Lavery, L. A. D. Cooper, C. Hickman, M. Meseguer, Z. Rosenwaks, O. Elemento, N. Zaninovic and I. Hajirasouliha. Deep Learning Enables Robust Assessment and Selection of Human Blastocysts after in Vitro Fertilization. npj Digital Medicine, Nature Publishing Group, 2019. [code]

P. Khosravi, M. Lysandrou, M. Eljalby, M. Brendel, Q. Li, E. Kazemi, J. Barnes, P. Zisimopoulos, A. Sigaras, C. Ricketts, et al. Biopsy-free prediction of prostate cancer aggressiveness using deep learning and radiology imaging. medRxiv, 2019.

M. Feldman, A. Karbasi, and E. Kazemi. Do Less, Get More: Streaming Submodular Maximization with Subsampling. NeurIPS, 2018 (spotlight presentation). [slides] [poster] [video]

P. Khosravi, E. Kazemi, Q. Zhan, M. Toschi, J. E Malmsten, C. Hickman, M. Meseguer, Z. Rosenwaks, O. Elemento, N. Zaninovic, and I. Hajirasouliha. Robust Automated Assessment of Human Blastocyst Quality using Deep Learning. bioRxiv, 2018.

E. Kazemi, M. Zadimoghaddam, and A. Karbasi. Scalable Deletion-Robust Submodular Maximization: Data Summarization with Privacy and Fairness Constraints. ICML, 2018. [slides] [poster]

M. Mitrovic, E. Kazemi, M. Zadimoghaddam, and A. Karbasi. Data Summarization at Scale: A Two-Stage Submodular Approach. ICML, 2018. [poster]

E. Kazemi, L. Chen, S. Dasgupta, and A. Karbasi. Comparison Based Learning from Weak Oracles. AISTATS, 2018. [slides] [poster]

P. Khosravi, E. Kazemi, M. Imielinski, O. Elemento, and I. Hajirasouliha. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Enable Discrimination of Heterogeneous Digital Pathology Images. EBioMedicine, 2017. [poster] [code]

E. Kazemi, H. Hassani, M. Grossglauser, and H. Pezeshghi Modarres. PROPER: Global Protein Interaction Network Alignment through Percolation Matching. BMC Bioinformatics, 2016. Website: http://proper.epfl.ch/

E.Kazemi and M. Grossglauser. On the Structure and Efficient Computation of IsoRank Node Similarities. arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00668, 2016.

E. Kazemi, H. Hassani, and M. Grossglauser. Growing a Graph Matching from a Handful of Seeds. VLDB, 2015. [slides] [poster]

E. Kazemi, L. Yartseva, and M. Grossglauser. When Can Two Unlabeled Networks Be Aligned under Partial Overlap? Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2015. [slides]

R. Shokri, G. Theodorakopoulos, P. Papadimitratos, E. Kazemi, and J. P. Hubaux. Hiding in the mobile crowd: Location privacy through collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2014.

M. Kafsi, E. Kazemi, L. Maystre, L. Yartseva, M. Grossglauser, and P. Thiran. Mitigating Epidemics through Mobile Micro-Measures. Third International Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, 2013. [poster]

V. Etter, M. Kafsi, E. Kazemi, M. Grossglauser, and P. Thiran. Where to Go from Here? Mobility Prediction from Instantaneous Information. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2013.

V. Etter, M. Kafsi, and E. Kazemi. Been There, Done That: What Your Mobility Traces Reveal about Your Behavior. Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia Workshop, in conjunction with Int. Conf. on Pervasive Computing, 2012. [poster]