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General Information
Full Name | Amir Abdi |
Education
- 2020
Ph.D.
University of British Columbia
- 2013
M.Sc.
Sharif University of Technology
- 2013
Doctor of Dental Surgery
S. Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
- 2011
B.Sc.
S. Beheshti University
Experience
- 2022-Now
Principal Applied Scientist
Microsoft
- 2020-2022
Senior Applied Scientist, Research Team Lead
Borealis AI
- 2019-Now
CTO Co-Founder
Offerland
- 2018-2019
Machine Learning Consultant
Cityfid
- 2018
Machine Learning PhD Intern
Google
- 2013-2015
Doctor of Dental Surgery
Mehr Dental and Surgical Clinic
- 2011-2014
Technical Committee member - Virtual Robot Rescue Simulation league
RoboCup Federation
Honors and Awards
- 2019
- British Columbia Graduate Scholarship (BCGS), UBC, Canada
- Ranked 3rd, Disentanglement Challenge, NeurIPS 2019
- Ranked 2nd, XdHacks, Vancouver, Canada
- 2018
- Teaching as Research (TAR) Award, UBC, Canada
- Killam Teaching Assistantship Award, by UBC, Canada
- 2016
- Gilles Brassard Prize by NSERC - Awarded by the Governor General of Canada
- Vanier Scholarship, Awarded by NSERC, Canada
- 2015
- Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship (FYF), Awarded by UBC, Vancouver, Canada
- 2011
- Ranked 1st in class of 2011, Computer Engineering, Beheshti University, Tehran
- Ranked 2nd, Iran Open International RoboCup Competition, Rescue Virtual Robot league, Tehran, Iran
- 2009
- Ranked 20th, Asia Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming (ICPC) Contest, Tehran, Iran
- 2006
- Ranked 2nd in National University Entrance Exam, Iran
- 6-year Scholarship Award, National Elites Foundation, Tehran, Iran