Amir Raza
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Montreal, Quebec, India
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Top SchoolAmir Raza is an Applied Scientist II with 8 years of hands-on experience building and deploying ML solutions across cybersecurity, healthcare, education, and recommendation systems. He combines deep learning and NLP expertise—having designed self-supervised fine-tuning for BERT and worked on reviewer recommendation at Mila—with practical production experience using lightweight models like Random Forest and Isolation Forest for malware and phishing detection. At Amazon and prior roles he has bridged research and engineering to take models from prototype to product, including LLM work for healthcare and probabilistic student modeling for adaptive tutoring. A featured speaker at the Toronto AI Conference on ML in cybersecurity, he brings uncommon breadth across research-grade transformer methods and resource-efficient applied systems. Based in Montreal and fluent in cross-domain problem framing, he’s also an avid language learner, reflecting a continuous curiosity that fuels both his research and product work.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Masters at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Université de MontréalIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeeDAV Jawahar Vidyamandir
English, Urdu, Hindi, French, Dari
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Github Skills (37)
jekyll9
urdu9
parser8
sklearn8
jekyll-theme8
responsive8
nlp6
k8s6
client-go6
github-pages6
kubeflow6
standardized6
machine-learning6
pytorch6
artificial-intelligence6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amir9ume/urdu_ghazals_rekhta
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Dataset for Urdu Ghazals
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 day
datadatasetlanguage-modelmachine-learningnlp
amir9ume/practice_work
Sep 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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