# Behrad Bagheri

> Trust & Safety @ Instagram | 2x Startup Founder | Ex-Researcher: Federated Learning & Privacy Preserving ML

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/behrad

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2020 – Present | Menlo Park, CA
Instagram Trust & Safety: Building product solutions to keep Instagram and Threads safe
▪️Led development and launch of multiple user facing products to battle severe harms on the platform, including first of its kind protections on Instagram to prevent sextortion scammers from identifying victims connections 
▪️Led 15+ engineers and launched 5 new products to prevent users from spammers Instagram and Threads 
▪️Proposed, aligned with leadership and launched integrity based friction experiences on Instagram, resulting in +25% reduction of harmful interactions. Then expanded the experience into a scalable service for other teams to use

### Machine Learning / Scientist II @ Amobee
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
▪️ Led data science efforts of a company-wide project in collaboration with 20+ engineers, program managers, and product managers. The project creates a new revenue stream with potentials to bring $100M+ in annual revenue
▪️ Initiated a deep-learning R&D initiative, recommended unique use-cases, convinced the VP of Data Science to allocate resources, and formed a team of researchers to develop proof of concepts 
▪️ Developed a bid-price adjustment solution by optimizing for higher ROI in display CPA ads using historical data on Hadoop that increased overall ROI by 15%

### Principal Developer - Software and Artificial Intelligence Development @ Blue Cross NC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
▪️Designed and developed two machine learning solutions that saved $16M 
▪️ Developed an AI model for comprehending relationships between medical diagnoses and procedures 
▪️ Received Gold and Bronze Medal in 2018 BCBSNC Tech Olympics for designing a state of the art data sharing portal and designing an AI-Based fraud detection tool

### Co-Founder | Technical Lead @ MedAp LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Philadelphia Area
▪️Designed and deployed a comprehensive multi-tenant AI powered HIPPA compliant clinical trial management with companion iOS and Android apps which secured contracts with major pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer; 
▪️Led a team of five programmers to develop a patent-pending smart clinical trial management system
▪️Designed deep learning solutions for analyzing patient outcomes using Natural Language Processing (NLP), audio, and image processing.

### Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Researcher @ Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | Cincinnati, OH
▪️Designed machine learning and predictive analytics solutions for eleven projects in various industrial sectors, three of which were supported by National Science Foundation (NSF)
▪️Led a team of researchers and generated $300K revenue by designing a mobile and cloud-based PHM solution for on-demand access to assets health status; demonstrated at IMTS2014 and IMTS2016 in Chicago, IL
▪️Developed a defect detection solution (±5cm accuracy) for Alstom transit—European railway company—and incorporated the analytical engine in its cloud-based platform via a custom communication protocol

### Data Analysis Intern: Predictive Maintenance, Prognostics and Health Management @ DC Water
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Developed a novel hybrid clustering approach for analyzing data for the systems that are exposed to variating environment. The solution would have save the company estimated of $1.5 M per year by predicting failures in filtration process and avoid costly downtimes.

### Data Modelling Intern @ The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
Worked directly with senior and lead data modeling engineers to design various solutions for the company. As part of my work, I used Microsoft Azure for for data handling, data storage in one project, and used Microsoft Azure ML and Microsoft Azure Data Factories in the other project for processing and transfering data.

### Founding Member | Tech Lead @ MahyaMehr Advanced Systems Co. Ltd
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012
▪️ Employed and led 30 people; added a major revenue stream by developing the country’s first conference management system that automated 70% of the manual workload 
▪️ Developed an image processing solution to automate reading and documenting handwritten questionnaires


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Decentralized Federated Agents for Prognostics and Health Management in Industry 4.0
University of Cincinnati

### Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering - Predictive Maintenance
University of Tehran

### Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
University of Tehran


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/behradbagheri
- Portfolio: http://www.behradbagheri.com

---
Source: https://flows.cv/behrad
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/behrad/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12