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Shahab (Phd) Anbarjafari

Lead AI Scientist — Computer Vision & Sensor Fusion

Shahab Anbarjafari
Veibri, Estonia

Experience

May 2025 - Sep 2025
5 months

Lead AI Scientist — Computer Vision & Sensor Fusion

Boston HealthTech

  • Designed multi-modal DL pipeline (vision, wearables, ambient sensors); synchronization, denoising, late-fusion classifiers.
  • Shipped the first MVP, deployed and tested with a healthcare center covering 100 patients; HIPAA-aware data handling.
  • Real-time activity recognition (falls, gait, ADL) on edge gateways; PyTorch temporal CNN/Transformer backbones.
  • Clinical evaluation harness, dashboards, alerting; FHIR adapters for EHR integration.
Nov 2024 - Aug 2025
10 months

Senior Director of AI/GenAI

LanceSoft

  • Built LLM-driven pipelines (CNN/RNN/GNN/GAT) supporting discovery workflows.
  • Stakeholder leadership, estimation, and team mentoring across bids.
Sep 2024 - Present
1 year 5 months

Visiting Professor

Estonian Business School

  • Research advising and curriculum development on GenAI & responsible AI.
  • Tooling: Python, R, SQL, MATLAB, PowerBI for academic/industry projects.
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
9 months

ML Scientist

Quilt LLC

  • SLM fingerprinting, real-time summarization, phishing detection.
  • Python, NLTK/SpaCy, Llama/Gemini; SQL, MATLAB; TensorFlow; JS/HTML; Spark; AWS.
May 2024 - Jun 2025
1 year 2 months

Senior Director of AI/GenAI

SimplifyWorkforce (USTech)

  • Built CV/JD parsing, cover-letter generator, AI interviewer, video profiler; Responsible AI guardrails.
  • Stack: Python, TensorFlow, LangChain, RAG/GraphRAG, OpenCV, SQL, AWS, Spark, PowerBI; Twilio integrations.
May 2024 - Nov 2024
7 months

Lead ML Scientist — Graph Attention Networks & Process Optimization

DACH Pharma

  • Delivered 20% lower MAE on molecular property prediction, +18% AUC on drug–target interaction, and +15% synthesis yield prediction accuracy vs. baselines — helping to reach 25% faster lead identification.
  • Architected multi-task PyTorch Geometric GAT with multi-head attention, late graph readouts, and task-specific heads (regression/classification) over 50k molecules and 10k protein–ligand pairs.
  • Built RDKit-driven molecular graph featurization (atoms/bonds + global descriptors) and bipartite reaction graphs to model yields/byproducts; integrated Monte Carlo condition search for route optimization.
  • Shipped a production inference API that plugged into the client’s process simulator, enabling high-throughput screening (10k compounds/day) with seconds-level latency instead of hours.
  • Drove interpretability for regulatory/compliance via attention map visualizations highlighting sub-structures driving predictions; accelerated chemist review/triage loops.
  • Orchestrated pre-training on ChEMBL/PubChem then domain fine-tuning; established rigorous splits, early stopping, and PU-learning for DTI to curb false positives.
  • Operationalized on NVIDIA A100 cluster (50 epochs, 256-mol batches) with AdamW + dropout; delivered hardened pipelines, config-driven experiments, and tracking.
  • Partnered cross-functionally (computational chemistry & process engineering) to translate model insights into higher-yield routes and reduced byproducts at scale.
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
1 year 4 months

AI SME

FlowStep

  • Generative image/text models (Stable Diffusion, GANs) and LLM APIs (GPT/Llama/Gemini).
  • Tooling: Python (Pandas/NumPy/Sklearn), PyTorch, OpenCV; Figma collaboration.
May 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year 4 months

AI Lead

LHV Pank

  • AML with Graph Attention Networks, compliance copilot, dynamic credit scoring.
  • Tooling: PyTorch/NetworkX, HF Transformers, ChatGPT API, SQL/Spark, PowerBI, AWS.
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
1 year

ML Scientist

Black Wall (formerly BotGuard)

  • Click/mouse-movement behavior analysis; streaming ML at scale.
  • Python/Sklearn, TensorFlow; JS/HTML; SQL/Spark; AWS.
Sep 2020 - May 2024
3 years 9 months

Visiting Professor

Yildiz Technical University

  • Taught AI courses.
  • Consulted on smart city initiatives.
  • Tooling: Python/MATLAB/R/SQL; PowerBI for urban analytics; civic-tech collaborations.
Mar 2020 - Jul 2025
5 years 5 months

AI Scientist — GenAI & Responsible AI

PwC Finland

  • Orchestrated firm-wide GenAI programs in Finland and the Nordics: operating model, governance, model risk controls, and privacy-by-design; acted as a key driver of Responsible AI at the EMEA & Global level.
  • Built and productionized LLM & deep learning solutions: document/file parser, document content generator, audio-based chatbot, and document-matching algorithms; integrated with client systems and compliance workflows.
  • For a Nordic bank: founded the AI team and led 5 ML engineers & 7 data scientists; delivered AML, Transaction Monitoring, and KYC models/pipelines; initiated a group-wide ChatGPT Enterprise rollout and ran enablement for all lines of service.
  • Advised and delivered across Retail, DeepTech, FinTech, and Manufacturing: anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, computer vision for quality inspection, ESG & financial reporting automation, and a virtual assistant for internal users.
  • Led Nordic client AI engagements end-to-end: discovery → MVP → production; set standards for experiment tracking, CI/CD, observability, and risk assessments.
  • Stood up PwC FI Metaverse practice elements to explore spatial computing use cases aligned with enterprise AI roadmaps.
  • Stack: Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, HuggingFace Transformers, SQL/Spark, Docker/Kubernetes, MLflow/Airflow, Power BI; deployments on AWS/GCP; security, auditability, and MLOps best practices baked in.
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
4 years 11 months

Co-founder & CTO

Alpha3D

  • Developed 3D content creation using diffusion-based models for AR.
  • Tooling: Python with TensorFlow/PyTorch; GANs/Transformers/U-Net; OpenCV; JS/HTML; SQL; AWS/GCP.
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
2 years

Discovery Search Team Lead

Rakuten Inc via iCV Lab (University of Tartu)

  • Led multimodal discovery search research for e-commerce, improving recommendations.
  • Python/PyTorch; CNN/RNN/Transformers; SQL/Spark; AWS; experimentation and metrics dashboards.
Sep 2013 - Apr 2024
10 years 8 months

Professor / Head of Intelligent Computer Vision (iCV) Lab

University of Tartu

  • Secured over 10 million euros in funding across 47 ML/CV/AI contracts, partnering with Mifundo, Jobbatical, Veriff, Clevon, AuveTech, OthersEyes, and Miros.AI (formerly Find.Fashion).
  • Veriff: developed core facial verification AI now supporting secure identity verification, including public-sector use in Estonia.
  • Clevon: built autonomous-traffic perception, including a traffic light status recognition system exceeding 85% accuracy.
  • AuveTech: designed LIDAR and RGB based tiny-object detection to improve autonomous mini-van safety and obstacle avoidance.
  • Jobbatical: created NLP pipelines for candidate and job data harvesting, enrichment, and domain-specific skill matching.
  • OthersEyes: pioneered first-impression analysis from images and video to help mitigate cyberbullying and promote online empathy.
  • Miros.AI: engineered the core AI for a recommendation engine enabling wordless search in e-commerce.
  • Delivered industry projects in facial verification and autonomous vehicle detection; led end-to-end research, prototyping, and transfer to production with partners such as Veriff and Clevon.
  • Tooling and platforms: NumPy, OpenCV, LIDAR/RGB computer vision, YOLO/SSD, SQL, MATLAB, R, Spark, Power BI, AWS, and GCP.

Summary

Visionary AI leader and scientist with end-to-end ownership of agentic AI, Generative AI, Computer Vision, and NLP solutions—from research and prototyping to production deployments. Proven ability to build and lead high-performance teams, establish AI research labs, and deliver outcomes across startups, global enterprises, and consulting engagements. Deep hands-on experience with Azure/OpenAI, AWS, Hugging Face, Google Gemini, Claude; training & fine-tuning transformer and vision models; and MLOps on AKS/EKS/Vertex. Operates comfortably at exec strategy and implementation detail.

Skills

  • Ai/ml: Agentic Ai, Genai & Rag, Nlp, Computer Vision, Time Series, Reinforcement Learning (Practical), Evaluation/guardrails
  • Models/frameworks: Transformers, Gpt/llama/gemini/claude, Diffusion, Yolo/detectron2/mmdetection, Pytorch, Tensorflow/keras
  • Agents/orchestration: Langchain, Crewai, Autogen, Custom Tool-use & Evaluators
  • Cloud/mlops: Azure Ml/aks/adf, Aws Sagemaker/eks/lambda, Vertex, Docker/k8s, Mlflow, W&b, Ray
  • Data/infra: Lakehouse, Delta/parquet, Feature Stores, Faiss/milvus/pgvector, Kafka, Elastic
  • Engineering: Python, C++, Sql, Typescript/node, Fastapi, React/next.js

Languages

Persian
Native
English
Advanced
Turkish
Advanced
Estonian
Elementary

Education

Oct 2008 - Jun 2011

Eastern Mediterranean University

Ph.D., Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Computer Science Major · Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Oct 2007 - Jun 2008

Eastern Mediterranean University

M.Sc., Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Computer Science Major · Electrical & Electronic Engineering · 4.00/4.00

Oct 2003 - Jun 2007

Eastern Mediterranean University

B.Sc., Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Robotics Major · Electrical & Electronic Engineering · 3.97/4.00

Certifications & licenses

IEEE Senior Member

IEEE

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