Mojtaba Vàlipour
Research Engineer II at RBC Borealis
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMojtaba Vàlipour is an AI Engineer and researcher with 11 years of experience building large-scale machine learning systems and geospatial foundation models. He has driven product and technical value from early-stage to multimillion-dollar valuation as Principal AI Scientist and founding engineer at hum.ai, where he developed SOTA super-resolution and kelp-identification transformers and designed a novel diffusion-based transformer architecture for Earth-scale models. His experience spans industry research labs (Huawei Noah’s Ark, Oracle), a faculty affiliate role at Vector Institute, and current AI engineering at BMO Capital Markets, blending rigorous academic training (PhD, University of Waterloo) with production ML. He also founded collaborative research platform DaneshBaz and has a public-facing technical presence through a personal website and YouTube channel, reflecting a commitment to communicating deep AI topics. Notably, he maintains active codebases across multiple git hosts (including an active Waterloo profile), signaling a preference for institutionally integrated engineering workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Hardware Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Hardware Engineering at Jundi-Shapur University of TechnologySelf Driving Car Engineering Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence, Self Driving Car Engineering Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at UdacityHigh School Diploma Mathematics & Physics, High School Diploma Mathematics & Physics at Dr. AssarianMaster of Science (M.S.) Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (M.S.) Artificial Intelligence at Shiraz UniversityPart-Time MBET, Part-Time MBET at University of Waterloo
Persian, English, French
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Github Skills (79)
unreal-engine-410
simulator10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
carla10
imitation-learning10
ai9
audio9
autonomous-vehicles9
deep-learning9
self-driving-car9
artificial-intelligence9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mvpcom/ShirazuDL
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
mvpcom/CyberHandsFaraz
Oct 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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