Ali Nejad
Senior Manager, Data Science (Lead AI GenAI)
Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAli Nejad is a Senior Manager in Data Science and Lead for AI/GenAI at RBC with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operationalizing NLP and generative AI solutions. He bridges research and production—delivering enterprise-scale projects like sentiment and emotion detection, multi-label classification, translation improvements, and RAG pipelines while championing LLMOps and model monitoring. Skilled in Python, LangChain, Spark NLP and prompt engineering, he has deep expertise turning client call transcripts and messy data into actionable insights at scale. An entrepreneur as well, he founded FarsiLink to connect Toronto’s Persian community, applying AI and scraping/automation to grow a bilingual business directory. His M.Sc. in computational linguistics underpins a pragmatic approach that consistently aligns cutting-edge models to measurable business value.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
certificate semantic annotation, certificate semantic annotation at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenMaster of Science (M.Sc.) computational linguistics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) computational linguistics at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
alifars/iWordSense
Jun 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes in 3 years 2 months
alifars/100DaysofMLCode
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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