Alireza Nourian
CEO at Roshan
Iran
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Top SchoolAlireza Nourian is a CEO and AI-savvy software engineer with 14 years of experience building production systems and leading teams from Iran. With an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Iran University of Science and Technology, he combines academic depth with hands-on engineering. As CEO of Roshan since 2016, he has steered product and technical strategy while remaining an active developer. His open-source contributions to the Persian NLP toolkit Hazm show practical expertise in text normalization, tokenization, and stemming for Persian language processing. That blend of leadership and niche NLP engineering enables him to turn language research into usable tooling for Persian-speaking applications. Colleagues describe him as a founder who still digs into code to solve domain-specific challenges.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence at Iran University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (15)
tokenize10
tokenizer10
nlp10
text-normalization10
python10
text-processing10
lemmatization9
regular-expression9
nltk6
django-models6
javascript6
postgresql6
mathjax6
scikit-learn6
django6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
roshan-research/hazm
Oct 2013 - Apr 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & NLP Engineer
Back-end Developer & NLP EngineerContributions:4 releases, 328 commits, 21 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alireza's contributions primarily involved developing and expanding the functionality of the Persian NLP Toolkit. Their work focused on building and integrating components for text normalization, specifically adding a normalizer with various patterns for character and affix adjustments. They also implemented basic tokenizers for sentence and word segmentation. Furthermore, the user's contributions included adding a basic stemmer and modifying the Normalizer to include options for controlling its behavior.
nlppython-librarypersianpythonpart-of-speech-tagger
roshan-research/openie
Dec 2013 - Feb 2018
Open information extraction from Persian web
Contributions:39 commits, 13 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 2 months
nlpextractionpythonpersianopen-information-extraction
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