Saeed Najafi
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSaeed Najafi is an ML software engineer with a decade of experience blending research-grade NLP and production engineering, currently working on AI for Android XR at Google. He holds an ongoing PhD from the University of Alberta and has a track record of shipping language models and efficient transformers across internships and industry roles at Google, Huawei, BenchSci and the Vector Institute. Saeed has built robust NLP pipelines (PySpark, Airflow, BigQuery) for biomedical information extraction and explored advanced techniques like speculative decoding, adversarial multi-tasking, and variational language modeling. He enjoys mathematics and problem-solving, with a particular focus on modeling language efficiently—an interest reflected in both his research internships and hands-on engineering roles. Beyond code, he helped organize LLM bootcamps and often bridges academic ideas to deployable systems, bringing research rigor to product-facing ML.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of AlbertaAmirkabir University of Technology
English, Persian, azari
Github Skills (71)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
speech-recognition10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SaeedNajafi/saeednajafi.github.io
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:163 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
SaeedNajafi/DB-Project
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
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