Kamelia Aryafar

Kamelia is the Head of AI for Members at Netflix. She leads teams of AI Researchers and Engineers focused on building foundational models and LLMs, data and applications that pioneer AI for Netflix at Member Scale.
Prior to Netflix, Kamelia founded and led Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Business Edition, Google Agentspace, Vertex AI Search and Search Platform (including Grounded Gemini) from zero to GA at Google AI. She led all of Engineering (infra, front end, quality) and AI teams focused on Gemini Enterprise, Agentspace, Enterprise NotebookLM, solving large scale search and recommendations challenges and foundational LLMs for factuality and grounding. Prior to this, Kamelia has been the Engineering head and founder of Vertex AI Search and platform at Google releasing several GA product suites such as Vertex AI Search, Vertex AI Vector Search, Grounded Gemini API and Vertical Search and Personalization for example the Discovery AI suite for retail and conversational commerce agents (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/retail-product-discovery).

Prior to Google, Kamelia was the Executive Vice President, Chief Algorithms and Analytics Officer, and board member for Overstock.com (NYSE:BYON) , where she led the company’s Engineering , AI and product. Kamelia joined Overstock.com, after several years at Etsy where she worked with different product teams across several platforms to integrate ML and AI algorithms throughout the organization.

Kamelia holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computer science and ML from Drexel University and has published several papers in scientific journals. As an active member of the AI 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 Technology.