Shahab (Phd) A.
Lead AI Scientist — Computer Vision & Sensor Fusion
Experience
May 2025 - Sep 2025
5 monthsBoston, United States
Lead AI Scientist — Computer Vision & Sensor Fusion
Boston HealthTech
- Designed multi-modal DL pipeline (vision, wearables, ambient sensors) with synchronization, denoising, and late-fusion classifiers
- Shipped the first MVP, deployed and tested with a healthcare center covering 100 patients with HIPAA-aware data handling
- Developed real-time activity recognition (falls, gait, ADL) on edge gateways using PyTorch temporal CNN and Transformer backbones
- Built clinical evaluation harness, dashboards, and alerting with FHIR adapters for EHR integration
Nov 2024 - Aug 2025
10 monthsUnited States
Senior Director of AI/GenAI (Contractor)
LanceSoft
- Directed GenAI initiatives for pharma drug discovery and led development of 12 RfPs across US and Canada
- Built LLM-driven pipelines (CNN, RNN, GNN, GAT) to support discovery workflows
- Provided stakeholder leadership, estimation, and team mentoring across bids
Sep 2024 - Present
1 year 2 monthsTallinn, Estonia
Visiting Professor (0.1 FTE)
Estonian Business School
- Supported AI-related grant development and R&D initiatives
- Taught and mentored executives on applied AI, including GenAI and responsible AI
- Utilized Python, R, SQL, MATLAB, and Power BI for academic and industry projects
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
9 monthsUnited States
ML Scientist (Contractor)
Quilt LLC
- Built NLP-based cybersecurity features for IP and secret protection with sub-10 ms inference
- Developed SLM fingerprinting, real-time summarization, and phishing detection models
- Utilized Python, NLTK, spaCy, Llama, Gemini, SQL, MATLAB, TensorFlow, JavaScript, HTML, Spark, and AWS
May 2024 - Jun 2025
1 year 2 monthsNew York, United States
Senior Director of AI/GenAI (Contractor)
SimplifyWorkforce (USTech)
- Led a team of 4 machine learning engineers to build LLM and deep learning solutions for talent platforms
- Developed CV/JD parsing, cover-letter generator, AI interviewer, and video profiler with responsible AI guardrails
- Employed Python, TensorFlow, LangChain, RAG, GraphRAG, OpenCV, SQL, AWS, Spark, Power BI, and Twilio integrations
May 2024 - Nov 2024
7 monthsLead ML Scientist — Graph Attention Networks & Process Optimization (Consultant)
DACH Pharma
- Delivered 20% lower MAE on molecular property prediction, +18% AUC on drug–target interaction, and +15% synthesis yield prediction accuracy versus baselines, accelerating lead identification by 25%
- Architected multi-task PyTorch Geometric GAT with multi-head attention, late graph readouts, and task-specific heads over 50k molecules and 10k protein–ligand pairs
- Built RDKit-driven molecular graph featurization (atoms, bonds, global descriptors) and bipartite reaction graphs, integrating Monte Carlo condition search for route optimization
- Shipped a production inference API integrated with the client’s process simulator, enabling high-throughput screening (10k compounds/day) with seconds-level latency
- Developed interpretability for regulatory compliance via attention map visualizations highlighting sub-structures driving predictions
- Orchestrated pre-training on ChEMBL and PubChem followed by domain fine-tuning; established rigorous splits, early stopping, and PU-learning for DTI to curb false positives
- Operationalized pipelines on an NVIDIA A100 cluster (50 epochs, 256-molecule batches) with AdamW and dropout; delivered hardened pipelines, config-driven experiments, and tracking
- Partnered cross-functionally with computational chemistry and process engineering teams to translate model insights into higher-yield routes and reduced byproducts at scale
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
1 year 4 monthsEstonia
AI SME (Contractor)
FlowStep
- Developed deep learning and GenAI-based interactive UX tooling using Stable Diffusion, GANs, and LLM APIs (GPT, Llama, Gemini)
- Employed Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), PyTorch, OpenCV, and collaborated via Figma
May 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year 4 monthsTallinn, Estonia
AI Lead (Contractor)
LHV Pank
- Established and led AI teams for LHV Pank (Estonia) and LHV Bank (UK)
- Delivered AML with Graph Attention Networks, compliance copilot, and dynamic credit scoring solutions
- Utilized PyTorch, NetworkX, Hugging Face Transformers, ChatGPT API, SQL, Spark, Power BI, and AWS
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
1 yearTallinn, Estonia
ML Scientist (Contractor)
Black Wall (formerly BotGuard)
- Introduced real-time ML algorithms to detect bot activities and improve ad security
- Analyzed click and mouse-movement behavior and implemented streaming ML at scale
- Employed Python, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, Spark, and AWS
Sep 2020 - May 2024
3 years 9 monthsİstanbul, Turkey
Visiting Professor
Yildiz Technical University
- Taught AI courses and consulted on smart city initiatives
- Utilized Python, MATLAB, R, SQL, and Power BI for urban analytics and civic-technology collaborations
Mar 2020 - Jul 2025
5 years 5 monthsHelsinki, Finland
AI Scientist — GenAI & Responsible AI (Contractor)
PwC Finland
- Orchestrated firm-wide GenAI programs in Finland and the Nordics, including operating model, governance, model risk controls, and privacy-by-design; key driver of Responsible AI at EMEA and global level
- Built and productionized LLM and deep learning solutions: document/file parser, content generator, audio-based chatbot, and document-matching algorithms integrated with client systems and compliance workflows
- Founded the AI team for a Nordic bank, leading 5 ML engineers and 7 data scientists to deliver AML, transaction monitoring, and KYC models; initiated ChatGPT Enterprise rollout and enablement across service lines
- Advised and delivered anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, computer vision for quality inspection, ESG and financial reporting automation, and virtual assistants across Retail, DeepTech, FinTech, and Manufacturing
- Led end-to-end Nordic client engagements from discovery through MVP to production, setting standards for experiment tracking, CI/CD, observability, and risk assessments
- Established PwC Finland Metaverse practice elements to explore spatial computing use cases aligned with enterprise AI roadmaps
- Utilized Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, SQL, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, Airflow, and Power BI; deployed on AWS and GCP with security, auditability, and MLOps best practices
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
4 years 11 monthsTallinn, Estonia
Co-founder & CTO
Alpha3D
- Developed 3D content creation tools for AR using diffusion-based models
- Employed Python with TensorFlow and PyTorch, GANs, Transformers, U-Net, OpenCV, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, AWS, and GCP
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
2 yearsTartu, Estonia
Discovery Search Team Lead
Rakuten Inc. via iCV Lab (University of Tartu)
- Led multimodal discovery search research for e-commerce recommendation improvements
- Employed Python, PyTorch, CNN, RNN, Transformers, SQL, Spark, AWS, and built experimentation and metrics dashboards
Sep 2013 - Apr 2024
10 years 8 monthsTartu, Estonia
Professor / Head of Intelligent Computer Vision Lab
University of Tartu
- Led research in human behavior analysis and delivered AI solutions across FinTech, AgriTech, EduTech, and SecurTech
- Secured over €10 million in funding across 47 ML, CV, and AI contracts with industry partners including Mifundo, Jobbatical, Veriff, Clevon, AuveTech, OthersEyes, and Miros.AI
- Developed core facial verification AI for Veriff supporting secure identity verification in public sector
- Built autonomous traffic perception systems for Clevon, including traffic light status recognition exceeding 85% accuracy
- Designed LIDAR and RGB-based tiny-object detection for autonomous mini-van safety and obstacle avoidance at AuveTech
- Created NLP pipelines for candidate and job data harvesting and skill matching for Jobbatical
- Pioneered first-impression analysis from images and video to mitigate cyberbullying for OthersEyes
- Engineered recommendation engine AI enabling wordless search in e-commerce for Miros.AI
- Utilized 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.
Languages
Persian
NativeEnglish
AdvancedTurkish
AdvancedEstonian
ElementaryEducation
Oct 2008 - Jun 2011
Eastern Mediterranean University
Ph.D., Computer Science Major · Electrical & Electronic Engineering · Gazimağusa
Oct 2007 - Jun 2008
Eastern Mediterranean University
M.Sc., Computer Science Major · Electrical & Electronic Engineering · Gazimağusa · 4.00/4.00
Oct 2003 - Jun 2007
Eastern Mediterranean University
B.Sc., Robotics Major · Electrical & Electronic Engineering · Gazimağusa · 3.97/4.00
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