Hossein Aboutalebi
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Montreal, Quebec, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHossein Aboutalebi is an applied scientist with nine years of experience building and tuning multimodal large language models, unsupervised vision systems, and defenses against adversarial attacks. Currently at Amazon, he architects LLM agent systems that improve reasoning, automation, and end-to-end generative product experiences, drawing on prior applied roles at AWS, Apple, Cerebras, and startups. His research background (PhD work at University of Waterloo and research roles at McGill and a vision lab) grounds a pragmatic approach to bridging cutting-edge multimodal research and production engineering. He has hands-on experience optimizing CNNs, fine-tuning multimodal LLMs, and deploying language models like BERT and GPT across specialized hardware. Known for moving quickly between research and applied product work, he combines deep theoretical knowledge with practical performance tuning on real systems. Based in Montreal, he often tackles cross-disciplinary problems where vision and language intersect, bringing an engineer’s focus on robustness and scalable inference.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at McGill UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Sharif University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (28)
voting10
nutrition10
chatbot5
adversarial-machine-learning5
multimodal5
benchmark5
pytorch4
reproducible-research4
chatgpt4
realtime4
benchmarking4
standardized4
datasets4
robustness4
segmentation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lindawangg/COVID-Net
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
COVID-Net Open Source Initiative
Contributions:2 reviews, 182 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
chest-radiographyinitiativecovid-netcovidx-datasetcoronavirus-detect
h-aboutalebi/SparceReward
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:145 commits, 12 PRs, 143 pushes in 11 months
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