Journey

A quick timeline of how I got here:

• 1986 - Born in a small village near Babolsar, Mazandaran, northern Iran.
• 1993 - Started primary school at Masoud Saad, in Babolsar.
• 1998 - Started secondary school at Motahari, in Babolsar.
• 2001 - Started high school at Shahed, in Babolsar.
• 2004 - Began my BSc in Electrical Engineering at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology.
• 2009 - Went on to an MSc in Electronic Systems at the University of Mazandaran, where a master's project on Persian signature recognition first pulled me into machine learning.
• 2018 - Moved to Canada and started a PhD in Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, in the Liv4D lab, working with Sainte-Justine hospital on pediatric ARDS diagnosis.
• 2022 - Joined Junction AI as a part-time data scientist while still a PhD student.
• October 2023 - Finished my PhD.
• Since then, I've grown into a Machine Learning Engineer at Junction AI, working on LLM and RAG systems.
• Looking ahead, my next stop is likely Ontario - I'm staying in Canada, just curious to experience another province.