Zein Shaheen
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Yandex
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolZein Shaheen is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building production-grade multimodal AI at leading Russian and international firms. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has led R&D and product work spanning text-to-video, video-to-audio, speech synthesis, ASR and dialect-aware LLMs that serve Gulf and Egyptian users. At Sberbank he helped open-source the Kandinsky video generation work and co-authored a paper on architectural improvements for text-to-video pipelines; at Huawei he published on expressive, robust TTS. Comfortable across transformers, diffusion models and earlier architectures, he’s known for turning research prototypes into deployed systems and for tackling novel, high-complexity problems. Based in Saint Petersburg, he combines deep academic training with hands-on engineering, often bridging research publications and production delivery.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Tishreen UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at ITMO UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, Arabic, Russian, French
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Github Skills (19)
speech4
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
deep-learning3
classification3
multilingual3
prosody3
pytorch3
text-generation3
topic-modeling3
text-to-speech2
text-classification2
speech-synthesis2
modularity2
speech-to-text2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zeinsh/lenta_short_sentences
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Dataset extracted by analyzing and processing Lenta news dataset for Russian Language, to be used in my research for text generation
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year
nlpanalyzingdatasettext-generationrussian-language
zeinsh/Legal-Docs-Large-MLTC
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Multi Label Text Classification for Legal documents. Work on mono-lingual and multilingual parallel data
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 month
nlplegalparallelmonoparallel-data
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