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Shahab (Phd) Anbarjafari
Lead AI Scientist — Computer Vision & Sensor Fusion
Experience
May 2025 - Sep 2025
5 monthsLead 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 monthsSenior 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 monthsVisiting 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 monthsML 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 monthsSenior 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 monthsLead 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 monthsAI 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 monthsAI 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 yearML 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 monthsVisiting 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 monthsAI 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 monthsCo-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 yearsDiscovery 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 monthsProfessor / 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
NativeEnglish
AdvancedTurkish
AdvancedEstonian
ElementaryEducation
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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