Rahim Kassanaly
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolRahim Kassanaly is a Senior Research Scientist based in Montreal with 8–9 years of cross-industry experience applying machine learning to aerospace, transportation, telecom, agriculture and healthcare. He blends applied NLP, computer vision and reinforcement learning expertise with production engineering skills—having shipped models and data pipelines at Nuance and now Microsoft—while being fluent in TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS). His work has improved clinical NLP performance (multi-task models with +10% F1) and dramatically sped up data pipelines (50% preprocessing gains), showing a pragmatic focus on both research quality and operational efficiency. Earlier roles in embedded systems, networking and field deployments give him rare end-to-end systems insight from device firmware to large-scale ML infrastructure. He holds graduate training in machine learning from Université de Montréal / Mila and is bilingual in French, often bridging research teams and engineering stakeholders. An uncommon strength is his track record of converting legacy operational workflows (Access → MySQL migrations, automated release management) into scalable services used by global customers.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine Learning, Master's degree, Machine Learning at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteMaster's degree, Machine Learning, Master's degree, Machine Learning at Université de MontréalBachelor's degree (B. ING), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree (B. ING), Electrical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (7)
computer-vision8
object-tracking8
ddpg8
object-detection6
reinforcement-learning6
machine-learning1
data-science1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rkassana/tello-rl-yolo
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Tello drone object tracking using object detection (YOLO) and reinforcement learning (DDPG)
Contributions:42 commits, 31 pushes in 20 days
telloddpgreinforcement-learningobject-detectiontracking
rkassana/machine-learning
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Content for Udacity's Machine Learning curriculum
Contributions:12 pushes in 7 months
curriculumudacitydata-sciencemachine-learningcurriculum-learning
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