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Mr.Mohamed Aly
Mohamed Aly is a data scientist with large industrial experience in building large-scale statistical modeling and machine learning platforms, mining massive amounts of data, to discover inherent hidden information and optimize solutions of complex business problems at enterprises from different industry verticals.

Dr. Aly has a solid experience in building data mining & machine learning platforms processing billions of data signals and achieving significant performance gains in terms of both scalability and accuracy. Throughout his career, Dr. Aly developed experience in applying machine learning at multiple business applications such as user modeling, computational advertising, targeting, and various decision making applications.

Dr. Aly has a track record of assuming R&D roles at Yahoo! Research and Google Research, teaming up with world-class scientists and engineers to develop web-scale user modeling platforms for behavioral targeting and contextual advertising.

Currently, Dr. Aly is leading Seeloz Inc. to become a major player in the data-driven enterprise software world with its stellar Data-Driven Decision-Making platform.

On the academic level, Dr. Aly has a record of publishing research studies in large-scale user modeling in top-tier academic venues for Internet and data mining research such as WWW, KDD, WSDM and CIKM. He was among the early data scientists developing data mining techniques that effectively make use of the users' social activities to improve contextual advertising (at Google Research).

Specialties: big data, data science, machine learning, data mining, decision making, user modeling, computational advertising, behavioral targeting Experience

Seeloz Inc.   Founder & CEO Seeloz Inc.   January 2013 – Present (4 years 7 months)San Francisco Bay Area

Leading an amazing team of data scientists, software engineers and business experts with a mission to help enterprises at different industry verticals reduce their operational inefficiencies through leveraging our Data-Driven Decision-Making platform. Yahoo! Research Senior Research Engineer Yahoo! Research November 2009 – December 2012 (3 years 2 months)

As a member in the computational advertising team at Yahoo! Research, I was among the founding team of Yahoo!'s next-generation lookalike modeling platform. After 3 years of tremendous work, our platform reached the level of serving thousands of Yahoo! advertisers optimizing their advertising campaigns on the Yahoo! network. The science behind the platform has been published in top conferences such as KDD'11, CIKM'11, WSDM'12 and WWW'12. Yahoo! Software Engineer Yahoo! February 2008 – November 2009 (1 year 10 months)

Worked as a back-end software/research engineer in the Yahoo! Open Social platform, a new platform that is intended to rewire all the Yahoo! products to be more social. My assignment involved designing and implementing new features in the platform as well as researching newly arising problems and evaluating new ideas for the behavioral analysis of the platform users. University of Pittsburgh PhD Student University of Pittsburgh August 2004 – April 2009 (4 years 9 months)

I pursued my PhD in large-scale information retrieval. My PhD research included developing energy-efficient information retrieval techniques for improves ad-hoc querying in sensor networks. My research has been published in various conference such as CIKM'06, GLOBECOM'07, and SECON'08. Graduate Intern Google Research February 2007 – July 2007 (6 months)

My project consisted of improving AdSense on myspace using graph theory and machine learning techniques. Software Engineer Bibliotheca Alexandrina (The new Library of Alexandria) August 2002 – July 2004 (2 years)

- Administrating more than 40 computer servers and 900 PCs with different computing environments, e.g. Unix, Windows, and Solaris. - Implemented and operated a complete computerized gate security system for the library serving employees, members, and visitors. Took care of all the integration tasks with the library HR system, financial system, and book system. • Built a complete payroll web application with its backend integrated with the Oracle Applications. • Performed a full migration of the complete Oracle Applications production system of the library from a Windows environment to a Sun Solaris environment.

Patents

Traffic-oblivious load balancing protocol for sensor networks United States 11/875,531 Issued December 2011

Inventors: Mohamed Aly

Publications

Web-Scale User Modeling for Targeting WWW 2012

Authors: Mohamed Aly, Andrew Hatch, Vanja Josifovski, Vijay K. Narayanan

Scalable Inference in Latent Variable Models WSDM 2012

Authors: Mohamed Aly, Amr Ahmed, Joseph Gonzalez, Shravan Narayanamurthy, Alexander J. Smola

Scalable Distributed Inference of Dynamic User Interests for Behavioral Targeting KDD 2011

Authors: Mohamed Aly, Amr Ahmed, Yucheng Low, Alex Smola, Vanja Josifovski

Learning to Target: What Works for Behavioral Targeting CIKM 2011

Authors: Mohamed Aly, Sandeep Pandey, Abraham Bagherjeiran, Andrew Hatch, Peter Ciccolo, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Martin Zinkevich

Video Suggestion and Discovery for Youtube: Taking Random Walks through the View Graph WWW 2008

Authors: Mohamed Aly, Shumeet Baluja, Rohan Seth, D. Sivakumar, Yushi Jing, Jay Yagnik, Shankar Kumar, Deepak Ravichandran

STDCS: Spatio-Temporal Data-Centric Storage for Real-Time Sensor Applications SECON 2008

Authors: Mohamed Aly, Anandha Gopalan, Jerry Zhao, Adel Youssef

KDDCS: A Load-Balanced In-Network Data-Centric Storage Scheme in Sensor Network CIKM 2006

Authors: Mohamed Aly, Kirk Pruhs, Panos Chrysanthis

Online Packet Admission and Oblivious Routing in Sensor Networks ISAAC 2006

Authors: Mohamed Aly, John Augustine

Languages

English

French

Arabic

Skills

Data MiningComputational AdvertisingUser ModelingInformation RetrievalMachine LearningDistributed SystemsWeb MiningGraph TheoryMap-ReduceHadoopMapReduceBig DataOnline AdvertisingAlgorithmsComputer ScienceSee 17+

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Education

University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh PhD, Computer Science 2004 – 2008

9 Patents University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh MS, Computer Science 2004 – 2007   Alexandria University Alexandria University B.S., Computer Science and Engineering 1997 – 2002

Groups

Network of Professional Egyptians (NPE) in Silicon Valley Network of Professional Egyptians (NPE) in Silicon Valley Machine Learning Connection Machine Learning Connection Retail Banking Network Retail Banking Network eTail Conference: For eCommerce and Marketing Executives in the Retail Industry eTail Conference: For eCommerce and Marketing Executives in the Retail Industry Customer Loyalty & CRM Customer Loyalty & CRM Reinventing Retail Reinventing Retail Loyalty360 | Loyalty Expo Loyalty360 | Loyalty Expo See 7 more

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