Abdalaziz Sawwan, CST ’25, who earned his Temple PhD in computer and information sciences, helps design and evaluate changes to the personalization systems behind products like Instagram and Facebook while also searching for beneficial innovations within Meta's underlying technological infrastructure.
Working out of Meta’s headquarters in sunny Menlo Park, California, Abdalaziz focuses on how artificial intelligence (AI) systems perform in the real world in an efficient way. That means improving efficiency across a global fleet of data centers so that features ship smoothly and systems stay stable under massive demand.
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