Data Scientist @ Using novel and highly scalable machine learning algorithms rooted in information theory to deliver insights and predictive analytics to engineering, sales/marketing and healthcare applications From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Orange County, California AreaData Scientist & Co-Founder @ - Developed predictive stock performance models based on analyst revisions data - Developed a crowdsourcing platform for acquiring equity price target estimates From September 2013 to September 2014 (1 year 1 month) Orange County, California AreaQuantitative Analyst @ Developed film finance predictive models From February 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 7 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaGraduate Researcher @ - Benchmarked the performance of several machine learning algorithms for a biomedical application - Enhanced and benchmarked the performance of a multi-objective optimization algorithm From January 2009 to December 2011 (3 years) Vancouver, Canada Area

Master of Information and Data Science @ UC Berkeley School of Information From 2014 to 2015 MASc, Engineering Science, Intelligent Systems & Control @ Simon Fraser University From 2009 to 2011 Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechatronics Engineering @ Sharif University of Technology From 2004 to 2008 Amir Ziai is skilled in: Python, SQL, R, Machine Learning