Zahra Sarayloo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Future Cities Institute founded by CAIVAN, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZahra Sarayloo is an AI Engineer and researcher with 12+ years in machine learning and AI, combining a PhD in Electrical Engineering with a second master’s in Computational Mathematics and AWS certification. She builds production-grade LLM and multi-agent systems—designing RAG architectures, fine-tuning open-source models (e.g., Mistral 12B with LoRA/QLoRA), and running lifecycle, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines on AWS. Her work spans applied research (AI reasoning, neuro-symbolic methods, adversarial robustness) and engineering, having led agentic AI products for film and finance along with RF and signal-processing projects. At SPONSOR and university labs she bridged research and product, creating metadata-extraction and multi-agent workflows that combine rule-based, OCR, and chain-of-thought reasoning. Now based in Old Toronto, she focuses on agentic systems, LLM reasoning, and the emerging Internet of Agents while mentoring and translating novel research into scalable cloud-native solutions. A nimble polyglot across ML, systems, and embedded domains, she’s equally comfortable with hardware-in-the-loop experiments and large-scale model deployment.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A at K. N. Toosi University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A+, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A+ at University of TehranBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A+, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A+ at Shariaty Technical and Vocational UniversityMaster's degree, Computational Mathematics, Master's degree, Computational Mathematics at University of Waterloo
English, Persian
Github Skills (10)
nlp8
pytorch8
deep-learning7
logistics6
maintenance6
django6
react6
python5
web-application5
language-model5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zsarayloo/Eye-glaze-detection
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
zsarayloo/AI_Challenge_PitchAI
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:21 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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