Experience
Adjunct Assistant Professor
12/2025 - present
Dept. of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Expertise: Foundation Models and Generative AI - Agentic and Multi-Agent LLM Systems - Causal Representation Learning and Interventional Methods -
Graph-Based Learning for Complex and Relational Systems - Scalable AI Systems and Large-Scale Data Pipelines
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
11/2024 - 07/2025
Vision and Image Processing Lab (VIP), Dept. of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Collaboration:
BIOSCAN
Expertise:
LLMs - Generative AI - Causal Representation Learning and Interventional Methods - Large-Scale Data Pipelines
Machine Learning Engineer
02/2022 - 11/2024
Vision and Image Processing Lab (VIP), Dept. of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Expertise:
Biotechnology Applications - Data Science and Analytics - Statistical Data Processing - Causal Inference - Video Analysis and Modeling
Computer Vision Research Engineer
09/2018 - 02/2022
Computer Vision Lab (CVL), Dept. of Electrical engineering
Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Expertise:
Graph-Based Learning - Computer Vision and 3D Reconstruction - Deep Reinforcement Learning using SAC Architectures - Autonomous Driving in CARLA-Based Simulation Environments
Applied Scientist, Cognitive and Neural Systems
03/2014 - 04/2018
Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Expertise:
Self-Organizing and Growing Neural Models (SOMs, Growing Grid, Growing Cell Structures) - Unsupervised and Supervised Learning - 3D Action Recognition - Action Kinematics - Cognitive and Neural Systems
Research and Development Engineer
09/2009 - 01/2014
Advanced Process, Automation and Control Group (APAC), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Expertise:
Applied Reinforcement Learning - Robotics - Virtual Simulation and Virtual Reality - System Identification - Fault Detection and Diagnosis