Amir Saffari
Senior Principal Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir Saffari is a Senior Principal Machine Learning Scientist based in London with over 11 years of experience building ML, NLP, computer vision, and big data products across startups and large enterprises, now leading advanced ML efforts at Amazon. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on leadership roles including SVP of AI and Director-level positions, consistently moving research into production. Amir has a strong track record in applied research and team leadership, having driven ML initiatives at BenevolentAI, Import.io, Sony, and more. Beyond enterprise work he explores creative AI at the intersection of art and music—publishing projects like “LnH AI: The Band,” a Twitter bot that composes genre-specific music using deep models. He publishes code and papers on his site and samples his music work on SoundCloud, showing a rare blend of scientific rigor and creative experimentation. His profile reflects someone who bridges foundational research and product delivery while nurturing unconventional, public-facing AI art projects.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Technische Universität Graz
English, Turkish, Persian
Github Skills (31)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
numpy10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
neural-network10
transformer10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amirsaffari/transformers
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
👾 A library of state-of-the-art pretrained models for Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 months
nlpartbertlanguage-processingstate-of-the-art
amirsaffari/spacemacs
Oct 2016 - Jan 2025
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes in 8 years 3 months
vimkakounespacemacsemacscommunity-driven
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