Vaden Masrani
CEO & Founder at Sophia AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolVaden Masrani is the CEO and Founder of Sophia AI and a machine learning specialist with 11 years of experience bridging research and product. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at UBC’s PLAI lab in 2023 and moved from senior research roles at Huawei Canada into creating a technical engineering studio focused on data science and AI. His background blends academic rigor—multiple research roles and graduate degrees—with hands-on industry practice at organizations like Samsung Research America and RIKEN. Vaden is skilled at translating advanced ML research into deployable solutions and leading small technical teams through the full lifecycle from prototype to production. Based in Vancouver, he brings both entrepreneurial drive and deep technical credibility, often drawing on physics and systems thinking from his dual BSc in Physics and Computer Science. An uncommon strength is his consistent trajectory from undergraduate research assistant to founder, demonstrating sustained curiosity and an ability to commercialize research outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (97)
github-pages10
responsive10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
masters9
clustering8
regression8
microsoft8
classification8
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
anomaly-detection7
firefox-addon7
visual-studio7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plai-group/gae_in_pytorch
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
plai-group/ml_project_skeleton
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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