Summary
Alireza Shamsoshoara is an AI/ML engineer with nine years of experience bridging research and product development across autonomous vehicles, robotics, and embedded systems. Currently a PyTorch-focused Partner Engineer at Meta, he previously led VLM/LLM fine-tuning and tool-calling work for ADAS and end-to-end self-driving stacks at Volkswagen IECC. His background blends hands-on microcontroller and firmware experience (Pixhawk, Jetson, MSP430) with advanced ML methods like reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and LoRA-based transfer for vision-language models. He holds a PhD in Informatics and has applied his research to make constrained drones and automotive systems more autonomous and interactive. Known for curiosity across hardware and software, he pairs teaching and mentorship with pragmatic engineering to move prototypes toward production. An unexpected strength is his cross-domain fluency—able to tune large models while optimizing low-level flight controllers.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics at Northern Arizona University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University
English, Persian