Curriculum Vitae

ML Engineer @ REDspace

• Reduced Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) word error rate & hallucination up to 70%, leveraging contextual data and GPT-4o for generative error correction (EC) in Mockingbird product.
• Deployed multimodal EC solution on top of OpenAI Whisper, achieving SOTA performance as a PoC.

ML Associate @ Vector Institute

• Developed and deployed deep learning solutions for SMEs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate AI into real-world applications while ensuring scalability and efficiency.
• Gained hands-on expertise in RAG, LLM fine-tuning & alignment for enterprise AI optimization.

Applied Scientist @ National Research Council Canada

• Reduced MAE by 15% in astronomical image reconstruction by optimizing Restormer Transformer and U-Net architecture. Implemented in PyTorch and deployed on a multi-GPU cluster.
• Generated large-scale synthetic data from real galaxy morphologies, reducing CPU synthesis time by 20%. Developed preprocessing pipelines for raw telescope data.

Research Assistant @ University of Toronto

• Improved astronomical image denoising by 15dB PSNR, boosting object detection by 7%, and cutting observation costs by 66%.
• Optimized data loaders, reducing memory usage by 80%, execution time by 60%, and limiting disk access, accelerating model training.
• Developed an unsupervised denoising framework combining N2N and SURE loss, translating findings to non-technical stakeholders.

Research Assistant @ Computational Audio-Vision Lab

• Achieved SOTA 92% accuracy in autism detection from infants’ crying voice by fine-tuning Google YAMNet and using an ensemble classifier in TensorFlow.
• Attained 99.5% similarity & consistency with human annotations by fine-tuning YAMNet and using energy-thresholding for cleaning voice recordings.

Data Scientist @ Virasad Co.

• Reduced maintenance costs by 10% with real-time anomaly detection using LSTM and ARIMA for production line time series forecasting.

Master of Applied Science

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• GPA: 3.86/4

Bachelor of Science

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Engineering

• GPA: 3.92/4

Research Fellowship and Student Fellowship

University of Toronto

Awarded research and student fellowships for contributions to academic research.

Best Industrial Thesis Award

University of Tehran, ECE Department

Recognized for having the best industrial thesis among all undergraduate students graduating from the ECE department.

Ranked 1st in Sub-discipline

University of Tehran

Ranked 1st in my sub-discipline and 7th out of approximately 115 Electrical Engineering undergraduate students (top 10%).

Full Scholarship

University of Tehran

Received a full tuition-free scholarship based on academic excellence.

Faculty of Engineering Excellence Award

University of Tehran

Recognized for academic excellence for five consecutive years and received scholarships from the Supporter Foundation of the University of Tehran.

Bronze Medal, Iran's Chess Federation Tournament

Iran's Chess Federation

Achieved bronze medal in a national chess competition.

Scientific Association, University of Tehran

Volunteered in multiple events, including the 'How to Apply' symposium and 'Eydaneh' (New Year event).

Data Science Winter School

Contributed to the organization and execution of the Data Science Winter School.

Iranian Association at the University of Toronto (UTIRAN)

Assisted in organizing cultural and networking events to support the Iranian student community at the University of Toronto.

IEEE Scientific Association, University of Tehran

Actively participated in the IEEE University of Tehran Student Branch.