Farid Manuchehrfar

About Farid Manuchehrfar

Experienced PhD candidate with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strategic Thinker with leadership, tam-working, and cross-functional skills. I have the ability to conceptualize and provide innovative solutions to complex high dimensional data analysis problems and reducing the computational cost of the analysis. I have solid background in data analysis, machine learning, mathematical logic behind the machine learning algorithms. I have experience with the large scale data analytics, multivariate statistics, and data visualization. I am proficient with the several programming languages, including Python, R, C++, Matlab, and Fortran. I also have experience working with Tableau, InkSpace, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and advanced Excel.I have passed courses on Advance data science, bioinformatics, statistics and machine learning, python for data science and machine learning, and database management system.I have experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods, including K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, density based clustering, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Singular Value Dicomposition (SVD), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Linear and Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree, Random Forest, and XGBoost.I am passionate about learning new things more and more.

Experience

1. Data Science Manager

   Ford Motor Company

   Mar 2026 — Present

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics

• Sharif University of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering

  2012 — 2014

• Shiraz University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering

  2006 — 2012

Skills

• Mimics
• Programming with C++
• Autocad
• Mechanical Engineering
• Python
• Solidworks
• Matlab