Majid Laali
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMajid Laali is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with over a decade of experience applying ML and NLP to real-world products, currently working at Meta after earlier applied-science roles on Alexa NLU at Amazon. He has deep expertise in text mining, representation learning, unsupervised and generative models, and a track record of shipping production deep models for entity resolution and dialogue systems. As a former technical lead at Element AI and a PhD researcher in discourse translation, he bridges cutting-edge NLP research with pragmatic engineering and deployment. His background includes building document intelligence features, QA systems, and a hybrid machine translator, often using UIMA, Solr and TDD-driven Java components. Majid is an open-source enthusiast who enjoys building tools and prototypes that move research into product-ready software. Based in Seattle, he combines academic rigor with hands-on system design and a knack for turning linguistic insights into scalable ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Reinforcement Learning Summer School, Reinforcement Learning Summer School at Université de MontréalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Tehran
English, Persian
Github Skills (42)
pytorch10
robotics10
modular10
primitive10
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
autoencoder10
distributed-computing10
ai10
decision-making10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
dedicated9
python9
machine-learning9
naive-bayes9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mjlaali/housing_model
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
A regression model to predict housing price in Toronto
Contributions:7 PRs, 46 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 9 months
regressionlogistic-regressionregression-modelmachine-learningpredict
mjlaali/CLaCDiscourseParser
May 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:233 commits, 187 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 10 months
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