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Amir is a data scientist and machine learning course instructor at the EPFL Extension School. Previously, he worked as a post-doc at the quantitative finance chair at EPFL. He holds masters degrees in Statistics and Mathematics and worked in multiple industries before doing his PhD in Finance at HEC Lausanne.