Thomas Vakili
University Teacher at Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolThomas Vakili is a PhD-trained researcher and university teacher in Stockholm with a decade of experience at the intersection of NLP, deep learning, and data engineering. His doctoral work and publications focus on privacy-preserving NLP and the privacy risks of large language models, especially in clinical and health domains, and he has translated that research into teaching, supervision, and lab organization. Before academia he built production-grade data pipelines and backend services for companies like Spotify, PostNord and Truecaller, combining practical engineering (AWS, Kafka, Java/Spring) with machine learning and image-processing skills from crystallography and electron microscopy projects. He has a knack for turning privacy-aware research into deployable tools and synthetic-data methods from collaborative visits to Chilean research centers. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable lecturing in academia and shipping robust data platforms in industry, bringing rigorous experimentation to real-world ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Persian A & B, Persian A & B at Uppsala UniversityM.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Natural Language Processing at Stockholm University
English, Swedish, Persian, Norwegian, Spanish
Github Skills (93)
automation10
cluster-analysis10
diffraction10
data-collection10
webscraping9
nlp9
python9
lora9
crawler9
web-crawler9
pytorch9
scraper9
electron9
natural-language-processing9
transfer-learning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Taimin/edtools
Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
Collection of tools for automated processing and clustering of electron diffraction data
Contributions:70 pushes in 4 years
pythonelectronclusteringdiffractionelectron-diffraction
Taimin/Image_Reconstruction_Algorithms
Aug 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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