Biography

Kamelia Aryafar, PhD is the director and engineering head of retail AI/solutions in Google Cloud AI where she leads applied artificial intelligence and machine learning teams focused on solving retailer's problems. Prior to Google, Kamelia was the executive vice president, Chief Algorithms and Analytics Officer, and board member for Overstock.com, where she led the company’s analytics, data platform, technology, machine learning, data science, data engineering, and algorithmic products. Kamelia joined Overstock.com, after several years at Etsy where she worked with different product teams across several platforms to integrate analytics, ML and AI algorithms throughout the organization. Kamelia holds a PhD and MSc in computer science and ML from Drexel University and has published several papers in scientific journals. As an active member of the ML community, she frequently speaks at academic and industry conferences focusing on advancing the field of AI, ML, Technology and women in STEM. Kamelia serves on several boards including: The JED Foundation, Initiative of Analytics and Data Science Standards (IADSS), Retail Management Institute at Santa Clara University, Overstock.com (formerly), and Women of MENA in Tech.