Summary
Mehran Kazemi is a Staff Research Scientist based in Montreal with a decade of experience advancing machine learning and AI across industry and academia. He holds a PhD from UBC and has built and led research teams at Borealis AI before joining Google and DeepMind, focusing on relational learning, knowledge-graph embeddings, and probabilistic models. Mehran combines deep academic expertise—lifted inference and tensor factorization—with product-focused work such as TalentSnap’s FitScore, which blended NLP, time-series, and Bayesian methods into a production recommender. He is comfortable moving models from research to real-world systems and has a track record of mentoring teams and shipping applied ML at scale. A recurring theme in his career is bridging structured relational approaches with modern deep learning to solve heterogeneous data problems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Persian