Chief Executive Officer

Ali HESAM-MOHSENI

Contact

  • 647-654-4494
  • Ali.Hesam@vai-tech.com
  • 628 Fleet ST, Toronto, ON, M5V 1A8

My Profile

I have been involved in the Canadian scene of AI and data tech for the past 8 years. I've been working, consulting for and advising on the delivery of large projects for some of the biggest Canadian tech companies and corporations.
I have a broad interest in AI and Machine learning projects with particular emphasis on recommenders, NLP systems and image recognition, passion for designing and delivering modern big data stacks that deliver to the highest performance.

SKILLS

Machine learning 85 %
AI 95 %
Big Data 92 %
Digital Transformation 85 %
Analytics 98 %
EDUCATION
2012 - 2016
PhD

University of Waterloo

2007 - 2009
Master of Science

Sharif University of Technology

EXPERIENCE

2021 - 2023
ML tech lead

Shopify

  • Led the design and execution of Shopify’s B2B pricing engine.
  • Designed and executed a smart bot-tracking engine.
  • Worked on real-time image recognition for product classification.

EXPERIENCE

2018 - 2021
Senior Data Scientist

Loblaw Digital

  • Designed and delivered on the first in house recommendation engine and full-stack web service.
  • Managed and executed digital transformation on smart fulfilment operations.
  • Worked on NLP for search re-ranking.

EXPERIENCE

2017 - 2018
Senior ML Engineer

Adeptmind

  • Worked on the first 100% correct active learning fashion search and recommendation API.