AI Engineer & Tech Lead | CS PhD Student @ The University of Texas at Dallas

I am a Machine Learning Engineer and researcher with 6+ years of industry experience building scalable AI pipelines, backend platforms, and production ASR systems. Currently, my doctoral research focuses on Natural Language Processing, Contrastive Learning, and Large Language Models.

• PhD Research: Developing and fine-tuning advanced Natural Language Processing models for academic citation recommendation and related work generation.
• Tech Stack: PyTorch, Hugging Face, FastAPI, Docker, Apache Airflow, AWS.

• Conversational AI & ASR: Engineered and deployed an Automatic Speech Recognition system for Farsi.
• MLOps & Backend: Built robust CI/CD pipelines and microservice architectures using TorchServe, Celery, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
• Big Data: Architected external plagiarism detection pipelines using Hadoop, MapReduce, and Word2Vec.

• 👨‍🏫 Instructor for a Deep-dive AI Workshop & Digital Systems Lab at UTD.
• 💻 My daily driver: Arch Linux + Sway + Neovim.
• 📫 How to reach me: LinkedIn

Seeking a Summer 2026 Machine Learning / Software Engineering Internship in the U.S.