Hello! I'm Sameer.

I'm the co-founder and CTO of Beautylish. We're building a compelling new retail model centered around providing a high level of personal service. We help you figure out which products will work well for you and teach you how to get the most out of them.

We also created Good Molecules. Good Molecules is a skincare brand designed to help you see a difference in your skin. Our ingredients are backed by science, our packaging is safe for the planet, and our low prices make sure everyone can use it.

I've previously worked on monetization at YouTube, data analytics at Google, missile interceptors at Lockheed Martin and medical sensor device research at UC Berkeley.

Writing

• Things I Learned Teaching High School Computer Science (2014)
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Startups (2014)
• Actually, we do need more photo sharing apps (2014)
• Deep links are just links (2014)
• Tim Howard, Soccer in America & Univision (2014)
• Does working for highly esteemed companies actually help build your career? (2014)
• Product Management Interview Advice (2014)
• Three Key Themes from the First AWS Developer Conference (2012)
• Pair Programming is Awesome (2009)
• Beer and Analytics (2009)
• What college doesn't teach you about being effective at work (2009)

Teaching

• I taught Intro to Computer Science at Balboa High school as part of TEALS. I also mentored SF teaching teams to help TEALS acheive it's mission of establishing a computer science program at every high school.
• I mentored low-income, high-achieving high school students with Minds Matter of San Francisco.
• I was a teaching assistant for CS 61C the third introductory CS class at UC Berkeley in Fall 2006. You can watch a younger, more handsome version of me give a lecture about networking.
• I helped develop the Weiner Lecture Archives, an archive of UC Berkeley CS lectures and corresponding lecture notes.

Publications

• Framework for Body Sensor Networks
  Sameer Iyengar
  Thesis, University of California at Berkeley, May 2008, Berkeley, CA.
• A Framework for Creating Healthcare Monitoring Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks
  Sameer Iyengar, Filippo Tempia, Raffaele Gravina, Antonio Guerrieri, Giancarlo Fortino, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
  ACM International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), March 2008, Tempe, AZ.
• CareNet: An Integrated Wireless Sensor Networking Environment for Remote Healthcare [PDF]
  Yuan Xue, Stephen Wicker, Philip J Kuryloski, Shanshan Jiang, Roozbeh Jafari, Ruzena Bajcsy, Yanchuan Cao, Sameer Iyengar
  ACM International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), March 2008, Tempe, AZ.
• Spine: Software Framework for Wireless Body Sensor Networks (Poster)
  Sameer Iyengar, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
  2008 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, February 2008, Berkeley, CA.
• Distributed Segmentation and Classification of Human Actions Using a Wearable Motion Sensor Network
  Allen Yang, Roozbeh Jafari, Philip Kuryloski, Sameer Iyengar, S. Shankar Sastry and Ruzena Bajcsy
  UC Berkeley EECS Technical Reports, December 6, 2007, Berkeley, CA.
• Distributed Segmentation and Classification of Human Actions Using a Wearable Motion Sensor Network
  Allen Yang, Roozbeh Jafari, Philip Kuryloski, Sameer Iyengar, S. Shankar Sastry and Ruzena Bajcsy
  IEEE CVPR Workshop on Human Communicative Behavior Analysis (CVPR4HB), June 2008, Anchorage, AK.
• The Weiner Lecture Archives: An Ontology-Driven Interface for Viewing Synchronized Lectures and Notes
  Gene Zhang, Sean Carr, Sameer Iyengar, Hava Edelstein, Albert Liu and Dan Garcia
  SIGCSE '10 Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2010, New York, NY.
• A Resource Optimized Physical Movement Monitoring Scheme for Environmental and on-Body Sensor Networks
  Antti Vehkaoja, Sameer Iyengar, Mari Zakrzewski, Roozbeh Jafari, Ruzena Bajcsy, Steven Glaser, Jukka Lekkala, Shankar Sastry
  ACM workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments (HealthNet), June 2007, Puerto Rico.

Photography

• 7 days in Cuba (2017)

Other Fun Projects

• Online since 1999 - My first project was a site that linked to popular Java games. Thanks to the internet archive, you can still see what an early version and a later revision looked like.
• Notizi: Social RSS reader that recommended news articles based on things a user's friends liked. I co-founded Notizi along with Casey Ho. Watch a screencast of one of our early versions.
• Smartizen: Application that determined a representatives stance on major issues by analyzing their voting record in congress. We tagged bills into major topic areas and displayed how each representative voted on bills in that topic.
• Popular Now: A Google Search Trends and Yahoo! Boss Mashup that tweeted out news stories based on what people were searching for.