Allen Bolourchi, PhD, MBA
CEO and Founder
Allen Bolourchi is the CEO and founder of Crystalytic.ai. He directs the AI minor capstone at the University of Southern California (USC), where he teaches a technical course on Generative AI and guides students in building AI products at the Viterbi School of Engineering. Allen has been a leader in AI research at Meta Superintelligence Labs and FAIR, focused on building frameworks, products, datasets, and prototypes, including training datasets and benchmarks, evaluations (Evals), Reinforcement Learning and DPO environments, and data visualization tools for large AI research orgs at FAIR.
Additionally, Allen was the Global AI/ML Technical Product and Program Manager for the Apple App Store, leading worldwide Artificial Intelligence initiatives for Apple Marketing. With strong business acumen, Allen has led organization-wide teams to strategize, develop, deploy, and monitor omnichannel machine learning models across apps, email, push notifications, and other channels, including privacy-friendly on-device and server-side models.
Allen also served as the legal lead and legal counsel advisor for App Store ML and data usage for marketing purposes, ensuring compliance with competition, privacy, and product legal guidelines, as well as GDPR and PIPL requirements.
Allen brings 18 years of experience building enterprise-wide platforms and frameworks, defining, strategizing and managing the delivery of AI/ML and digital products, data, engineering and business solutions for firms ranging from trillion-dollar enterprises to startups. He has a PhD in engineering focused on AI/ML and MS in electrical engineering from USC and MBA in Tech/AI and Finance from UCLA. He was also a research machine learning scientist at Caltech conducting research on Bayesian theorem and AIC/BIC.
Link to Allen's Generative AI Course: USC AI Minor Capstone
Link to research papers: ResearchGate Link
Machine Learning Experiences
Industries: Software Services, Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Hospitality, E-Commerce, Entertainment, Manufacturing
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Hospitality and E-Commerce: Sales, Inventory Management and Operations Models
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User Subscription Life Cycle: Omnichannel Recommendation Systems for Engagement and Acquisition, Offer and Acquisition Models, Retention and Winback models, Upsell Models
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Financial: Credit Card Models, Spend Category Models, New to Pay Models, Offers Models
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Healthcare: Medical Diagnosis Models, Risk Models
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On-Device and Server Models with Batch and Streaming Architecture