Siavash Ghorbani

Head of AI in R&D Clinical Innovation at Allergan Aesthetics, Founder at Vitru.ai

Siavash Ghorbani, former Founder and CTO of Tictail, now serves as the VP of Engineering at Shopify, specifically overseeing Shop Pay. His educational background includes a Master's Degree in Engineering and participating in a Mandarin course at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Siavash's extensive career also includes a Technical Lead and Software Engineer position at Blocket.se, along with Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Engineer positions at Logica and Telia. Siavash also co-founded Tricycle Design. As Director of Engineering at Shopify, Siavash showcases his expertise in product development and realization, design, and technology.

Experience

Principal Data Scientist I, R&D at AbbVie

Sr Data Scientist II, Clinical Technology DS Lead at AbbVie (April 2021 - September 2022); Sr Data Scientist I at AbbVie (March 2020 - April 2021); Data Science Professor at University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education (February 2019 - Present); Data Scientist at Galaxy.AI (August 2018 - March 2020); Mathematics Professor at Golden West College (August 2014 - June 2017)

Education

Master's degree in Mathematics from California State University-Long Beach (2010-2013); Bachelor's degree in Economics from University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business (2004-2008); Master's degree in Data Science from University of San Francisco (2017-2018); Studied Computer Graphics and Imaging at Stanford University (2023)