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Basics

Name Nima Fathi
Label Machine Learning Researcher and AGI Advocate
Email nima0fathi@gmail.com
Url https://github.com/NimaFathi
Summary Ex MSc student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. Graduate researcher at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, with expertise in AI, counterfactual image synthesis, diffusion models, and generative models.

Work

  • 2024.07 - 2025.04
    Visiting Researcher
    ServiceNow
    Fine-tuning large language models using Discrete Diffusion models.
    • Developed and implemented innovative models in diffusion
  • 2021.01 - 2021.07
    Software Engineer
    Cafe Bazaar Inc. - Divar
    Full stack developer for the chat team, responsible for online chat and call services.
    • Developed AI models for detecting harassment and scams.
  • 2020.08 - 2020.12
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Yektanet Inc.
    Started as a data scientist in the Data team and was quickly promoted to a machine learning engineer for the Infrastructure team.
    • (@ Data team) Built content-based recommenders for ads and personalization.
    • (@ Data team) Designed a geolocation system, increasing CTR by 6.1%.
    • (@ Infrastructure team) Developed a real-time data pipeline for ad serving, improving latency by 30%.
    • (@ Infrastructure team) Implemented a distributed system for large-scale data processing, enhancing scalability.
    • (@ Infrastructure team) Owned and maintained backend and database services for internal tooling.

Education

  • 2022.09 - 2025.09

    Montreal, Canada

    M.Sc.
    MILA - Quebec AI Institute and McGill University
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Multi-agent systems for counterfactual generation and visual explainability. (submitted work @ iccv workshops
    • Diffusion and GAN-based approaches for counterfactual image synthesis. (ORAL@ MIDL`24 and short-listed for Best Paper Award)
    • Bias mitigation for improving robustness and generalization in medical imaging. (Published work @ MICAAI)
    • Longitudinal generative modeling and trajectory forecasting for irregularly sampled time series.
  • 2017.09 - 2021.12

    Tehran, Iran

    B.Sc.
    Sharif University of Technology
    Computer Engineering
    • Co-authored one of the earliest works applying Vision Transformers to medical imaging, establishing a benchmark for subsequent research.

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
GO
Elixir
C/C++
Java
R
Matlab
Frameworks
JAX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
OpenCV2
Hugging Face Transformers
Diffusers
PEFT
Accelerate
Data & Parallelism
DeepSpeed
Megatron-LM
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
AgenticAI
LangChain
LlamaIndex
smolagents
Haystack
RAG
VectorDB
Web Development
Django
Flask
React Native

Languages

English
Fluent
Persian
Native

Interests

Gen AI
Medical Imaging
Generative Adversarial Networks
Diffusion Models
Counterfactual Image Synthesis
Large Language Models
Discrete Diffusion Models
Fine-tuning
Natural Language Processing