Amir Masoud Sefidian - Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer

Hi!
I'm Amir Masoud Sefidian

Machine Learning Engineer

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elcome to my website! I started programming as a C++ developer for AVR microcontrollers when I was 14. After four years of programming for the high school robotics team, I was motivated to pursue Computer Science. I completed my Master's degree in Computer Engineering in 2017 where I worked in the field of Machine Learning and Data Science, especially missing values imputation techniques. Currently, I am a Machine Learning Engineer focusing on Algorithmic Trading Systems and Recommendation Systems. I'm passionate about learning, developing software, and working on AI projects. I regularly share some of the content that I find useful throughout my learning journey on my Blog. Aside from computer science, I enjoy playing the piano and listening to music.

Education

2015-2017M.Sc. in Computer Engineering
- GPA: 4.0/4.0 (Ranked 1^st in the class)
- Research Area:
  - Data Mining
  - Machine Learning
  - Data Preprocessing
2011-2015B.Sc. in Computer Engineering
- GPA: 3.96/4.00 (Ranked 1^st in the class)

Publications

Sefidian, Amir Masoud, and Daneshpour, Negin (2020). "Estimating missing data using novel correlation maximization based methods". Applied Soft Computing, 91, 106249.

Skills & Experience

Programming Languages

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Databases

Tools & Technologies

Projects

2022, BulkBoto3: Python package for fast and parallel transferring a bulk of files to S3 based on boto3!
2020-2022, As a Machine Learning Engineer in Eveince (formerly ParticleB):
- Developed "A framework to cut down the runtime of walk-forward optimization in algorithmic trading strategies by leveraging the parallel processing capability on the cloud architecture".
- Contributed to developing a Backtesting Framework that provides various tools for implementing and testing trading strategies such as fetching data, extracting features, training predictive models to generate signals, allocating assets, sizing the bets, executing orders, and evaluating portfolio performance.
- Implemented a parameter optimization service that periodically tunes parameters for algorithmic trading strategies.
- Developed a recommendation system to help FIDIBO (the largest digital platform of Ebooks, Audiobooks, and Podcasts in Iran) users discover personalized and relevant recommendations.
2020, AI-powered audio source separation (vocals/instruments) web application.
2020, 2D Landmark Detection & Robot Tracking using Graph SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping).
2020, Automatic image captioning service trained on the MS COCO dataset.
2020, Facial Keypoint Detection system that takes in any image with faces, recognizes and detects faces, and predicts the locations of 68 distinguishing keypoints on each face using Deep CNNs.
2019, A machine learning based system that gives insights about metrics of an organization.
2018, Designed and implemented a web-based appointment scheduling, accounting, and management system for a consultation institute to efficiently manage their 40k+ appointments, 9k+ transactions, and 4k+ clients.

Teaching/Research/Professional Experience

Machine Learning Engineer, Eveince (formerly ParticleB).
Researcher, Computer Science R&D Laboratory, Faculty of Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee University.
Reviewer, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS).
Reviewer, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (IJITDM).
Teaching Assistant , "Database" (Undergraduate), "Data Mining" and "Decision Support Systems" (Graduate), Faculty of Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee University, Instructor: Dr. Negin Daneshpour.