Waleed Khamies
Applied Scientist at NTWIST
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWaleed Khamies is an applied scientist with nine years of experience building and deploying ML systems that automate business processes, most recently focusing on scalable AI-powered scheduling and manufacturing solutions. He blends academic rigor—PhD-level work in AI & Healthcare and research roles at Mila and Brown—with hands-on engineering in production stacks like PyTorch, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, and BigQuery. As an R&D practitioner at NTWIST and a consultant for WesTower, he takes research ideas into industrial workflows using self-supervised and reinforcement learning. He also co-runs GradCorner to demystify AI concepts, reflecting a knack for translating complex methods into accessible guidance. Based in Edmonton, he pairs a strong theoretical background with practical delivery across startups and research labs, often tackling noisy-label and robustness challenges in deep learning.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD AI & Healthcare, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD AI & Healthcare at University of AlbertaMSc Mathematical Sciences – Machine Intelligence, MSc Mathematical Sciences – Machine Intelligence at AIMS - Next Einstein InitiativeBachelor of Science - BSc Software Engineering of Electronic Systems - Electronics & Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc Software Engineering of Electronic Systems - Electronics & Computer Engineering at University of Khartoum
Arabic, English, French
Github Skills (17)
lstm8
nlp7
piano6
natural-language-processing5
deep-learning5
music-information-retrieval5
pytorch5
robotics4
source-separation3
machine-learning2
historical1
geographic1
prediction-model1
reinforcement-learning1
census1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Khamies/LSTM-Variational-AutoEncoder
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
A PyTorch Implementation of Generating Sentences from a Continuous Space by Bowman et al. 2015.
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 days
pytorchnlpdeep-learningsentencescontinuous
Khamies/Piano-VAE
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
A pytorch Implementation of VAE-based musical model to generate and interpolate piano'notes using Nottingham dataset.
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
pytorchsource-separationnotesinterpolatelstm
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