Experience

AI Engineer Focus FS

Sep 2025 – Present

  • Designed and deployed a production-grade, multi-tenant agentic RAG chatbot for safety reports and operational data, reducing information retrieval time from hours to seconds
  • Built scalable AI backend services using LangChain and Azure, implementing conversational memory, secure chat sharing, and role-based access controls for data isolation
  • Developed AI-powered automation for safety form generation, reducing manual reporting effort by approximately 80%
  • Contributing to an $8M multi-year industrial AI initiative delivering enterprise-scale solutions for operational safety in the offshore energy sector

Entrepreneurial Lead Lab2Market Oceans Program

Jan 2025 – Mar 2025

  • Led customer discovery and market validation for an AI-powered biofouling detection solution for maritime vessels
  • Evaluated market opportunities and translated findings into a value proposition and go-to-market strategy

AI Developer Verafin (Nasdaq)

Sep 2024 – Feb 2025

  • Developed a transformer-based custom handwriting OCR for check images, enhancing fraud detection workflows
  • Designed a spell-check post-processing algorithm that improved character and word error rates

Graduate Researcher Memorial University of Newfoundland

Aug 2022 – May 2025

  • Preprocessed over 1.1TB of DICOM CT scan images and developed deep learning models for body composition estimation
  • Built ML models achieving an average R-squared of 0.92 across target tissues using multi-GPU infrastructure
  • Research presented at the Atlantic Canada AI Summit 2025

AI Engineer Radial

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022

  • Developed ML-based algorithms for cuffless blood pressure measurement using ECG and PPG signal data
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams on an end-to-end health monitoring system

AI Engineer Intern Shenasa AI

Jun 2021 – Oct 2021

  • Developed a deep neural network for face anti-spoofing, securing face recognition systems against presentation attacks

Education

MSc, Computer Engineering

Memorial University of Newfoundland

2022 -- 2025

Thesis: Estimating whole-body tissue composition from sub-body CT scans

MSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

University of Tabriz

2014 -- 2017