Sahand Rezaei-shoshtari
AI Research Scientist at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSahand Rezaei-shoshtari is an AI research scientist with eight years of experience specializing in reinforcement learning, temporal and state abstraction, and responsible AI. Based in Montreal, he blends academic rigor from a PhD program at Mila (co-supervised by David Meger and Doina Precup) with industry research stints at Microsoft and Samsung and now leads AI research at Autodesk. His work spans foundational RL research, manipulator dynamics from his MEng thesis, and applied AI-for-science projects, demonstrating an ability to move ideas from theory to real-world systems. Known for bridging robotics, control, and RL, he brings a rare combination of mechanical engineering roots and deep learning expertise to complex sequential decision problems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics and Physics, High School Mathematics and Physics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical Engineering at University of TehranDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at McGill University
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Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
McGill-AML/aml_robot_cutting_dataset
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Real cutting data collected on Kinova Jaco 2 robot
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
cuttingroboticsvisioncomputer-visionrobot
sahandrez/homomorphic_policy_gradient
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes in 10 months
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