Mehrad Moradshahi
PhD Candidate
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMehrad Moradshahi is a Machine Learning Engineer in Palo Alto with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and eight years of experience building and shipping NLP systems. He bridges academic research and production — following years as a Stanford graduate researcher and an NLP research internship at Microsoft, he now applies scalable ML at Moveworks. His open-source work on the well-known mt-dnn NLU project focused on making training pipelines more robust (adding resume-training and strict model-loading), signaling a practical focus on reproducibility and model management. Trained originally as an electrical engineer, he pairs rigorous theory with hands-on engineering across research, internships, and product teams.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
pytorch10
deep-learning10
bert10
modeling9
pre-loading9
trainings9
resource-loading9
data-loading9
nlp8
python8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
namisan/mt-dnn
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 21 days
Contributions summary:Mehrad primarily contributes to the training and model loading functionalities of the MT-DNN model. They added a "resume training" option to the training script, enabling the continuation of training from a specified checkpoint. Additionally, the user updated the model loading process, making it more robust by incorporating strict mode for handling missing or extra parameters during model loading. These modifications suggest a focus on improving the training pipeline and model management within the multi-task deep neural network framework.
natural-language-understandingbertdialogue-systemslanguage-understandingmicrosoft
stanford-oval/decaNLP
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
The Natural Language Decathlon: A Multitask Challenge for NLP
Contributions:1376 commits, 15 PRs, 141 pushes in 4 years 6 months
nlpdecathlonmachine-learningnatural-languagenatural
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