Saeed Khaki
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaeed Khaki is a Senior Applied Scientist with 8+ years blending academia and industry to build production-ready NLP, CV, and ML systems, currently focusing on RLHF and vision-language alignment for Microsoft Copilot. He holds a PhD in Operations Research and Data Analytics and has led LLM finetuning, prompt engineering, and session-aware training to improve Alexa’s conversational shopping and intent understanding at Amazon. His toolset spans PyTorch, TensorFlow, Trax, Transformers, and statistical R packages, and he has hands-on experience deploying models on AWS and mobile via TensorFlow Lite. Notable projects include building Falcon-40b/Llama2-based chatbots, a hybrid BERT-MLP-Mixer for intent classification, and a semi-supervised image model for corn kernel counting that shipped in an internal app. Saeed pairs rigorous research (e.g., a custom 6-layer Transformer trained on CNN/DailyMail and a 95% NER LSTM) with practical production concerns like drift detection and bias reduction. Based in Iowa, he combines deep learning curiosity with a track record of moving experimental models into real-world applications.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Operations Research and Data Analytics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Operations Research and Data Analytics at Iowa State UniversityAmirkabir University of TechnologyComputer Vision Nanodegree Program Computer Vision, Computer Vision Nanodegree Program Computer Vision at Udacity
English, Persian
Github Skills (40)
language-modeling9
agent9
gpt9
lora9
quantization9
nlp8
compression8
cuda8
transformer-architecture8
rlhf8
fine-tuning8
reinforcement-learning8
ai8
inference8
llama8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
saeedkhaki92/CNN-RNN-Yield-Prediction
Oct 2019 - May 2022
This repository contains codes for the paper entitled "A CNN-RNN Framework for Crop Yield Prediction"
Contributions:78 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
saeedkhaki92/Traffic-Sign-Classifier
Mar 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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