Our Team
Team
Who's building Polanyi Labs: synthetic behavioral data for recommendation systems, from people who work on ranking at Meta and Amazon.

Co-founder & CEO
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Taha Moula
Studied Computer Science and Economics at Trinity College. Interned at EY as a consultant. Helped scale a travel-tech startup from 0 to 50k+ users, where he discovered the rigged conversion game and went on to build Polanyi Labs.
EYTrinity CollegeNavoy

Co-founder & CTO
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Ahmed Abdelrehim
A fellow NESCAC, Ahmed studied Computer Science and Mathematics at Hamilton College and now works on Meta's ML infrastructure team for Ads Ranking.
Hamilton CollegeMeta

Technical Advisor
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Belhassen Bayar
Sr. Science Team Lead at Amazon with 15+ years of experience in ranking systems. He invented the first BERT-based recommender system for Prime Video and has 2,000+ citations in the field.
Amazon