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Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering - Machine Learning

University of British Columbia

M.Sc., Computer Engineering - Artificial Intelligence

Sharif University of Technology

Doctor of Dental Surgery

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

B.Sc., Computer Software Engineering

Shahid Beheshti University

Senior Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft

• Building multimodal Agents for M365, leading the end-to-end product cycle from ideation to execution, including the model fine-tuning cycles.
• Prior to M365, led the design, science and engineering of Security Copilot, including its agentic behavior.

Sessional Instructor - Applied Machine Learning

University of British Columbia

Senior Applied Scientist, Research Team Lead

Borealis AI

• Research Lead of the NOMI-Forecasts team, working on time-series & event-sequence forecasting, models with selection/abstention, and self-supervised learning.
• Tech Lead of the Anahit team, which developed Borealis AI's first centralized Feature Store for large-scale model training and offline batch inference.

Co-founder, CTO

Offerland

• Architected proprietary ML valuation models (AVMs) now used by the top 5 Canadian banks and Canada's largest appraisal firms.
• Shipped four products (OfferValue, OfferRent, OfferFarm, OfferVest), including the country's first automated farmland valuation tool, and scaled the engineering team while driving the company to breakeven.

Machine Learning Consultant

Citifyd

• Vehicle re-identification (computer vision) with contrastive Siamese networks.

Machine Learning PhD Intern

Google

• Optimized the performance of an imperceptible watermark decoder, increasing decodability by 10% and reducing decoder processing time by 15%.

Doctor of Dental Surgery

Mehr Dental and Surgical Clinic

Technical Committee member - Virtual Robot Rescue Simulation league

RoboCup Federation

• British Columbia Graduate Scholarship (BCGS), Province of British Columbia, Canada
• Ranked 3rd, Disentanglement Challenge, NeurIPS 2019
• Ranked 2nd, XdHacks, Vancouver, Canada

• Teaching as Research (TAR) Award, UBC, Canada
• Killam Teaching Assistantship Award, by UBC, Canada

• Gilles Brassard Doctoral Prize for Interdisciplinary Research by NSERC - Awarded by the Governor General of Canada

• Vanier Scholarship, Awarded by NSERC, Canada

• Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship (FYF), Awarded by UBC, Vancouver, Canada
• Graduate Support Initiative Award, UBC, Canada

• Ranked 1st in class of 2011 (Valedictorian), Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran
• Ranked 2nd, Iran Open International RoboCup Competition, Rescue Virtual Robot league, Tehran, Iran

• Ranked 20th, Asia Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming (ICPC) Contest, Tehran, Iran

• Ranked 2nd in National University Entrance Exam, Iran
• 6-year Scholarship Award, National Elites Foundation, Tehran, Iran