Head, ML Product Engineering, L6/TD bank
Ex-Postdoc Stanford University
I am currrently the head of ML product engineering team at Layer 6/TD bank in Toronto, Canada. Before this I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. My research centered around Deep Learning and its application in Computer Vision & Explainable AI.
I obtained my PhD at VIP lab - University of Waterloo and Machine Learning Research Group - University of Guelph where I was supervised by Dr. Alexander Wong (UWaterloo/ Canada research chair, Medical Imaging & AI) and Dr. Graham Taylor (UGuelph/ Vector Inst./ Canada research chair, ML Systems). During my PhD I also developed various POC projects for different industry clients via UWaterloo partnership & independent projects.
During my PhD, I was also the Lead AI Scientist for NextAI, a world class AI accelerator program of NEXT Canada based in Toronto, Canada. There I lead a team of AI scientists that provided AI R&D advice to various startups.
In distant past, I was a research engineer in LIP-6 - UPMC-Sorbonne University, Paris. There I had great time working with Prof. Matthieu Cord and Asst. Prof Nicolas Thome
For a full history, here's my Curriculum-Vitæ, Google Scholar and LinkedIn.
VISIIR web demo Food recognition system based on the work that I did at LIP-6, Paris.
More projects can be found on my GitHub profile.
UPMC-101 Dataset of 101 food categories (~1000 images per category) that I created from Google image search results.