Yaser Souri
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolYaser Souri is a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft Turing in Vancouver with 15 years of experience building and productizing machine learning systems, currently focused on post-training data, infrastructure, and evaluation for M365 Copilot. He brings deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bonn and an MS in AI from Sharif University—combined with hands-on experience in computer vision, search, and webly supervised recognition from roles at Google and prior startups. Yaser has shifted between research, product, and engineering roles (including co-founding a company and managing products), which gives him a rare blend of scientific depth and product sensibility. He has designed and deployed deep learning models across image classification, detection, retrieval, and matching, and now applies that expertise to large language model post-training pipelines. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex research into scalable production infra while keeping an eye on evaluation fidelity and data quality. Despite a focus on cutting-edge LLM work, his background reveals a persistent engagement with practical search and vision problems that inform robust, multimodal approaches.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Iran University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of BonnMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence at Sharif University of Technology
Github Skills (125)
python10
datasets10
deep-learning10
gpu10
farsi10
gpu-acceleration10
persian10
acceleration10
numpy10
tokenizer10
torchvision10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
tensor10
lightning10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yassersouri/fast-bird-part-localization
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 11 pushes, 2 comments in 10 months
yassersouri/omgh
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:236 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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