Mehdi Ghanimifard
Member Of Technical Staff at AMD Silo AI
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolMehdi Ghanimifard is a computational linguist and machine learning engineer with 13 years’ experience building and researching language technologies, from grounded spatial-language models in his PhD to production contract-processing systems. He blends experimental research and engineering, having fine-tuned and benchmarked large language models for summarization and long-context tasks at Silo AI and Point72 while optimizing training on data-center GPUs with AMD hardware. Comfortable across academia and industry, he has taught NLP courses and contributed to OCR and image-processing projects, reflecting a pragmatic hands-on approach to multimodal systems. He is particularly focused on the engineering and algorithmic challenges of scaled model training—arguing that breakthroughs require deeper attention to data, model scale, and training infrastructure beyond next-token prediction.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics at University of Gothenburg
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Github Skills (38)
pytorch9
python9
nlp9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
semantics8
webpages8
data-science8
vector6
computer-vision6
data-visualization6
streamlit6
developer-tools6
jax6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mmehdig/wall-e
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
GU-CLASP/generate_spatial_descriptions
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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