Taimoor Akhtar
Data & Applied Scientist
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTaimoor Akhtar is a Data & Applied Scientist with 9 years of experience applying machine learning, optimization and statistics to complex spatio-temporal and hydrologic problems, currently contributing at Microsoft from Vancouver. He builds production-ready ML frameworks, automated model pipelines and web decision-support tools for forecasting, resource optimization and sustainable water management, drawing on a PhD from Cornell and prior postdoc work on multi-objective optimization. His background spans academic research, industry collaboration and startup leadership, including developing river-basin optimization models and a knowledge platform for the water-energy-food nexus. Known for turning computationally expensive environmental models into scalable solutions, he blends deep algorithmic expertise with practical software engineering to operationalize research for industry partners.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (HONS), Computer Science, BSc (HONS), Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesPhD, Environmental and Water Resource Systems, PhD, Environmental and Water Resource Systems at Cornell University
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Github Skills (7)
surrogate9
toolbox7
optimisation7
python6
optimization6
gurobi1
operations-research1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
drkupi/APWS
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
drkupi/pySOT
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Surrogate Optimization Toolbox for Python
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 11 months
pythontoolboxgurobioptimizationmultiobjective-optimization
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