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General Information

Full Name Mojtaba Valipour
Date of Birth 10th June 1993
Languages English, Persian

Education

  • 2019-2024
    PhD in Computer Science
    University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
    • Symbolic Regression and Sequence Modelling with Conditional and Dynamic Language Models
      • SymbolicGPT
      • DyLoRA
      • SortedNet
      • Sorted LLama
  • 2022-2025
    Master of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBET)
    University of Waterloo (Conrad School), Waterloo, Canada
    • Daneshbaz.com - A platform for trust-free scalable research collaboration
    • AI-Based Unbiased Fact-Checking Platform
  • 2015-2018
    Master of Science in Artifical Intelligence and Robotic
    Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
    • Self-Driving Cars Using Behavior Reflex Methods
      • Dodge-Learning
  • 2011-2015
    Bachelor of Computer Engineering
    JSU, Dezful, Iran
    • Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Navigation System
      • CyberHands Faraz
      • CyberHands Faras

Experience

  • 2023
    Tech AI Lead
    Coastal Carbon, San Francisco, USA
    • Designed and Developed the AI pipeline to detect, segment, and measure underwater coastal seaweeds from satellite imagery.
  • 2021 - now
    Research Associate
    Noah's Arc Lab - Huawei, Marham, Canada
    • Designed and Developed novel algorithms for efficient training of large language models
  • 2021
    Research Associate
    Oracle Labs, Mississauga, Canada
    • Designed and Developed novel algorithms for automatic dataset drift detection
  • 2018
    Visiting Researcher
    Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain
    • Designed and Developed a modified co-training algorithms to improve the generalization ability of Faster-RCNN for object detection

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Innovation Pioneer Award - Huawei
  • 2022
    • Entrepreneurial PhD Fellowship
  • 2021
    • Pasupalak CS Capstone Award
  • 2020
    • University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship Award
  • 2019
    • PhD Scholarship Award
  • 2015
    • University Best Student Award
  • 2014
    • Ministry of Science, Research and Technology Award

Academic Interests

  • Machine Learning
    • Optimization
    • Causal Inference
  • Large Language Models
    • Many-in-One Models
    • Efficient Training

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Digital Games, Movies, Chess, etc.