Amir Tavanaei
Principal Applied AI Scientist at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir Tavanaei is a Principal Applied AI Scientist based in Seattle with a PhD in Computer Science and nine years of hands-on experience translating advanced ML research into production at enterprises like Microsoft, Amazon, and P&G. He has deep expertise across generative and multimodal AI—LLMs/SLMs, NLP, CV, and fusion models—paired with a strong research background in bio-inspired spiking neural networks and signal/audio processing. At P&G he led cross-business computer vision, video, generative modeling and XAI efforts, and at Amazon scaled multimodal and generative systems before taking on LLM customization and fusion modeling at Microsoft. He blends rigorous academic training with product-focused delivery, often tackling problems with small-data generative methods and explainability for consumer insights—skills that bridge research novelty and real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Arak UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Louisiana at LafayetteMaster's degree, Computer science/Engineering, AI, Master's degree, Computer science/Engineering, AI at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (4)
large-scale3
gpu2
scale2
neural-network1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tavanaei/Spiking-CNN
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
tavanaei/Cancer-Suppressor-Gene-Deep-Learning
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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