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Soham Shah

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Founding Engineer / Staff ML at Ema Unlimited
📍 Redwood City, California, United States

Soham is the Founding Machine Learning Engineer at Ema, where he was the first hire and leads all ML initiatives. His expertise lies in applied ML and NLP, honed through previous roles at Brain Technologies and IBM Research. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

Beyond his core engineering roles, Soham has demonstrated a commitment to nurturing talent, having previously directed the fellowship and internship programs at Brain Technologies. He is also a recipient of the highly selective Leadership Scholar Award from his time at university.

Unique Fact: As the first person hired at Ema, he has been integral to building the companys machine learning foundation from the ground up.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Founding Engineer / Staff ML
Job Level
Middle
Location
Redwood City, California, United States
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Applied Machine Learning
His entire career is built on applying ML, from research at IBM to leading all machine learning initiatives as the first hire at Ema.
Generative AI
He is currently building Ema, a company focused on creating a universal AI employee, which is heavily reliant on generative AI technology.
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Work history

Founding Engineer / Staff ML
Ema Unlimited
4-2021 - 12-2023
Lead Applied Scientist
Brain Technologies, Inc.
6-2019 - 4-2021
ML Engineer
Brain Technologies, Inc.
1-2018 - 6-2019
Cognitive Research Engineer
IBM Research
5-2017 - 9-2017
Extreme Blue Data Science Intern
IBM
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Education
2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of California, Berkeley
2020 - 2020
XCS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
Stanford University
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