Experience & Academic Path

A focused journey through applied AI research and production-grade machine learning engineering.

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Professional Experience

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Applied AI Scientist

Homebase
Aug 2025 — Present
  • arrow_rightBuilt and deployed a production sales forecasting model achieving 18% average sMAPE across live deployments, directly shaping staffing and inventory decisions for thousands of small businesses.
  • arrow_rightDesigned an end-to-end customer feedback intelligence platform using RAG and LLMs, achieving 80% classification accuracy and increasing the company's feedback insight capacity by 10x.
  • arrow_rightBuilt an internal analytics tool enabling cross-functional teams to explore customer data, apply filters, interact with AI, and export reports independently.
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ML Engineer Intern

eSentire
Feb 2025 — Jul 2025
  • arrow_rightBuilt a scanning tool for Model Context Protocol (MCP) vulnerabilities, identifying 10+ critical security risks and generating detailed mitigation reports for engineering teams.
  • arrow_rightDeployed and configured 5 distinct LLM protection systems; integrated Promptfoo for red-teaming with 5,000+ adversarial prompts and implemented NOVA rules to analyze over 1M prompt logs, improving harmful prompt detection accuracy by 20%.
  • arrow_rightDevised a novel framework for jailbreak detection in LLMs by researching adversarial prompt techniques and evaluating detection methodologies across multiple threat models.
  • arrow_rightFirst-authored MCP-Scanner — the first comprehensive security vulnerability scanner for Model Context Protocol servers — accepted at EnCyCriS @ ICSE 2026 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
PythonLLMsPromptfooRed TeamingMCPSecurityJailbreak Detection
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Academic Background

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Master of Applied Science (MASc) in Computer Science

University of Guelph

Specialization in NLP & Recommender Systems

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Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Specialization in NLP & Recommender Systems

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Skills & Technologies

Research Domains

NLP & Large Language ModelsRecommender SystemsAI Safety & GuardrailsForecasting & Time SeriesSocial ComputingRetrieval-Augmented Generation

Engineering Stack

PythonPyTorchFastAPIStreamlitDockerPostgreSQLDatabricksGit

ML & AI Tools

Hugging FaceTransformersLangChainscikit-learnPandasNumpySpeechBrainOpenAI API