Evan Bloom

Evan Bloom is an Adjunct Professor (Part-Time) at the University of San Francisco. He currently serves as Senior Manager of Product Innovation at Netflix, where he leads machine learning efforts for Growth and Messaging Algorithms. His work focuses on personalizing customer communications and optimizing causal impact analysis for billion-scale user interactions.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School (2014)
• B.S. in Management Science, UC San Diego (2003)
• B.A. in Political Science, UC San Diego (2003)

Research & Professional Background: Evan’s prior roles include Data Science leadership at Capital One, policy analysis at RAND Corporation, and analytical work at Analysis Group. His academic research emphasized climate change adaptation policies, while his industry experience spans fraud detection, marketing experimentation, and algorithmic optimization.

Labs/Teams: Currently leads Netflix’s Growth & Messaging Algorithms team, focusing on large-scale ML deployment in customer engagement systems.