Mehrdad Oveisi
Lecturer at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMehrdad Oveisi is a lecturer and AI specialist based in Vancouver with eight years of professional experience bridging academia and industry. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has taught a wide range of computing courses while also applying ML and data-science techniques to domains from oceanography to genomics. At UBC and King’s College London he combines curriculum development and research-led teaching with practical data science projects, bringing experimental rigor to production-minded solutions. His background includes bioinformatics software development and big-data analytics for Ocean Networks Canada, giving him uncommon depth in applying AI to scientific data. Mehrdad is equally comfortable mentoring students and collaborating on interdisciplinary research, often translating complex research outcomes into teachable, usable tools.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.) at University of AlbertaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (1)
machine-learning7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UBC-CS/cpsc330-2022s
May 2022 - Jun 2022
CPSC 330: Applied Machine Learning
Contributions:70 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
applied-machine-learningmachine-learningcpscapplied
UBC-CS/cpsc330-2023s
May 2023 - Jun 2023
CPSC 330: Applied Machine Learning
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
machine-learning
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.