Mehrdad Farahani
PHD Student at WASP – Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolMehrdad Farahani is a PhD student at Chalmers and a researcher-engineer with a decade of experience building and deploying deep learning and NLP systems. His work spans academic research within WASP and hands-on engineering—leading the first monolingual pre-trained Persian language model and shipping production microservices for text classification, summarization, and semantic search. He combines a physics background with an MSc in AI to approach problems analytically, and has coached students and run workshops to grow local ML talent. Based in Gothenburg, he bridges state-of-the-art research and practical ML pipelines (TFx, Docker), and quietly prioritizes accessible AI education by producing Persian-language learning materials.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics - Solid Sate, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics - Solid Sate at Kharazmi UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Engineering / Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Engineering / Artificial Intelligence at Islamic Azad UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Persian
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Github Skills (96)
language-detection10
transformers10
python10
emotion-recognition10
flax10
datasets10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
gemma10
glm10
corpus10
pandas10
audio-classification10
multimodal10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chef-transformer/chef-transformer
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Chef Transformer 🍲 .
Contributions:2 reviews, 37 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year
transformersrecipesflaxhuggingfacerecipe-generator
hooshvare/pn-summary
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
A well-structured summarization dataset for the Persian language!
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
parsbertsummarizationpersian-summarizationpn-summarymt5
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