Interviewer: Jason Koebley, Senior Staff Writer, Motherboard.

Kamelia Aryafar, Ph.D. is a senior data scientist with Etsy's Data Science team since 2013. She works on building scalable machine learning and computer vision tools to curate a personalized experience for Etsy users. Prior to Etsy she was doing a Ph.D. in computer science and machine learning in Drexel University, building large-scale music classification models.