Amirsina Torfi Email : fi[email protected] GitHub ¯ Linkedin 7 Twitter ƃ Google Scholar Personal Page Educational Blog Portfolio FIELDS OF INTEREST • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Healthcare. QUALIFICATIONS • Skilled professional with comprehensive background in machine learning and deep learning. Currently a Ph.D. student with a well-established publication record as well as well-known open source software and projects worldwide. Very interested to define the research and project agenda independently regarding the needs and necessities. Also very interested in teamwork activities with having the strong evidence regarding the open source contributions. ACADEMIC DETAILS Examination University Year Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Applications Virginia Tech 2018 - Current Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Electrocics Engineering West Virginia University 2016 - 2018 Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Electrocics Engineering Howard University 2015 - 2016 MS in Information Technology Iran University of Science and Technology 2011 - 2014 BS in Electrical Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology 2006 - 2011 TECHNICAL SKILLS • Script (Python, Shell, R), Web (CSS,HTML), Tools (Eclipse, LATEX), Frameworks & Packages (Caffe, Tensor- flow, Theano, CNTK, keras, OpenCV, Scikit-learn, Pytorch), Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, Mac) RECENT EXPERIENCES • Virginia Tech (Graduate Research Assistant - Deep Learning Researcher) (Jan’18 - Present) ◦ Experienced in Natural Language Processing [Sample Project] and Computer Vision [Sample Project] to advance for applications such as lipreading [Sample Project], speech recognition [Sample Project], and privacy in machine learning. ◦ Proposed a framework to generate synthetic healthcare records using generative adversarial networks ◦ Developing privacy-preserving deep learning models with differential privacy • Machine Learning Mindset (Founder) (Jan’19 - Present) ◦ Founder of the Machine Learning Mindset blog. [Link] ◦ The goal of this blog is to enhance the education and practice of AI and machine learning. ◦ Rank as one of the top-300 open source organizations worldwide with more than 20k stars. [Link] ◦ To promote the education of AI and Machine Learning, this blog covers basic topics as well, such as Linear Algebra [Link], Healthcare [Link], Classifiers [Link], and Deep Learning Frameworks such as Tensorflow [Link]. PUBLICATIONS (Google Scholar Link) PROJECTS (Full Portfolio Link, GitHub) Honors • Ranked by Git-Awards as one of the top-50 Python Github developers in the United States. [Link] • Ranked by Git-Awards as one of the top-200 Python Github developers worldwide. [Link] • Creator of the TesnorFlow-Course project as one of the top TesnorFLow projects worldwide [Link]. • Creator of the Python Machine Learning project as one of the top Machine Learning projects worldwide [Link]..