Curriculum Vitae
Basics
| Name | Omid Vaheb |
| Label | ML Engineer |
| ovaheb@gmail.com |
Work
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2025.01 - Present ML Engineer @ REDspace
- Boosted Automatic Speech Recognition accuracy by cutting Hallucinations and Word Error Rate by 50%, reducing operational costs, and confirming improvements via A/B testing.
- Deployed generative error correction module into Mockingbird Dubbing Solution. Engineered a multimodal PoC using OpenAI and open-source models, achieving SOTA accuracy.
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2024.09 - Present ML Associate @ Vector Institute
- Developed multi-agent systems for startups & medium enterprises, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate effective AI solutions.
- Designed chatbots utilizing RAG and post-training techniques, such as LLM fine-tuning.
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2023.06 - 2024.09 Applied Scientist Intern @ 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 distributed 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.
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2022.09 - 2024.12 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.
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2021.04 - 2022.08 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.
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2020.05 - 2021.04 Data Scientist @ Virasad Co.
- Reduced maintenance costs by 10% with real-time anomaly detection using LSTM and ARIMA for production line time series forecasting.
Education
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2022 - 2024 Master of Applied Science
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- GPA: 3.86/4
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2017 - 2022 Bachelor of Science
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Engineering
- GPA: 3.92/4
Certificates
| Big Data and Machine Learning | ||
| Google Cloud | 2025-01 |
| Database Management (MySQL) | ||
| Meta | 2025-01 |
| OPTIONS Program | ||
| University of Toronto | 2024-11 |
| Project and Time Management | ||
| Mitacs | 2024-06 |
| Introduction to Databases | ||
| Meta | 2024-06 |
| Advanced School on AI | ||
| IPM | 2021-09 |
| 2021 IEEE ICIP | ||
| IEEE Signal Processing Society | 2021-09 |
| Data Science Winter School | ||
| IEEE | 2020-01 |
Skills
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| C/C++ | |
| Linux Shell Scripting | |
| MATLAB | |
| SQL | |
| R | |
| Verilog |
| AI Libraries & Frameworks | |
| PyTorch | |
| TensorFlow | |
| Keras | |
| Langchain | |
| LlamaIndex | |
| NLTK | |
| OpenCV | |
| AutoML | |
| Fastai | |
| JAX |
| Development Tools & Skills | |
| Git | |
| Slurm | |
| Docker | |
| MySQL | |
| AWS | |
| GCP | |
| Vertex AI | |
| BigQuery | |
| Sagemaker | |
| Bedrock | |
| Wandb | |
| HDF5 | |
| Cloud Computing |
Awards
- 2022.09.01
Research Fellowship and Student Fellowship
University of Toronto
Awarded research and student fellowships for contributions to academic research.
- 2022.01.01
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.
- 2020.09.01
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%).
- 2017.09.01
Full Scholarship
University of Tehran
Received a full tuition-free scholarship based on academic excellence.
- 2017.09.01
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.
- 2010.09.01
Bronze Medal, Iran's Chess Federation Tournament
Iran's Chess Federation
Achieved bronze medal in a national chess competition.
Volunteer
References
| Prof. Stark Draper | |
| My amazing supervisor during my master's studies. Professor @ ECE UofT |
| Shayaan Mehdi | |
| The most supportive manager I ever had! AI Project Management @ the Vector Institute |