Khalid El-Arini

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Research Scientist
Responsible AI at Meta






Biography

I am a Research Scientist at Meta, working at the intersection of responsible AI and generative AI. Previously, I spent several years as both an Engineering Manager and Research Scientist working on News Feed at Facebook, leading teams and projects that worked on content and user understanding for recommendations, ranking, and integrity. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, on the subject of machine learning methods for personalization. My advisor was Carlos Guestrin (now at Stanford), and I was a member of the SELECT Lab.

In 2016, I co-organized the ICML workshop on Computational Frameworks for Personalization. I've co-organized NeurIPS workshops in 2014 on Personaliation: Methods and Applications, and in 2013 and 2012 on social networks and social media analysis. In 2011, I co-organized the Workshop on Enriching Information Retrieval (ENIR 2011) at SIGIR 2011, in Beijing, China, July 28, 2011.

In the summer of 2011, I interned at Microsoft Research Cambridge, working with Ralf Herbrich on transparent user models for personalization. From February 2007 through August 2008, I took a leave of absence from the Ph.D. program in order to spend some time in industry. I spent three months at Google New York, where I worked on Personalized Search. This was followed by a year at MITRE in McLean, Virginia, where I applied machine learning to national policy problems, primarily working with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies of the federal government.

I received undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a minor in political science, from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. I received a Masters degree in Computer Science, also from Carnegie Mellon, in 2006.

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