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 -- 2025Thesis: Estimating whole-body tissue composition from sub-body CT scans
MSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Tabriz
2014 -- 2017