Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
Applied Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSahel Sharifymoghaddam is a software engineer and PhD student researching the intersection of NLP and information retrieval, with a focus on retrieval-augmented generation. He brings eight years of industry experience at Google across Chrome input and Web Payments teams and currently contributes to Document AI for Industries on Google Cloud while also engaging with Yupp. Trained at Sharif University of Technology and the University of Toronto, he blends rigorous academic foundations with production-grade engineering. Sahel is comfortable moving systems from research prototypes to cloud-scale deployments, especially where NLP models meet document-centric workflows. Based in Toronto, he pairs deep technical problem-solving with a curiosity for applied research that informs real product improvements. Colleagues know him for bridging academic research and practical cloud services, accelerating the path from novel models to usable features.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyMaster's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Persian, Turkish
Github Skills (77)
python10
deep-learning10
mobile-web10
audio10
nlp10
lucene10
information-retrieval10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
image-synthesis10
machine-learning10
llm10
javascript9
multimodal9
html9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
castorini/rank_llm
Sep 2023 - Jul 2026
RankLLM is a Python toolkit for reproducible information retrieval research using rerankers, with a focus on listwise reranking.
Contributions:239 reviews, 152 PRs, 165 pushes in 2 years 10 months
information-retrievalpython
sahel-sh/demo-payment-handlers
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:206 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
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