Farzad Khazaee
Address: * ******* ****., *** ***, Toronto, ON, CA
Phone: 647-***-****
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/farzad-khazaee E-mail: ***************@*****.***
EDUCATION:
M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering
Minor: Project Management
Shahid Beheshti University
Sep. 2016 to Sep. 2019
Tehran, Iran
Thesis Topic: Optimizing the use of machinery for recurring tasks in housing construction projects
Reviewed and surveyed literature on the different methods of mathematical optimization
Reviewed and surveyed literature on metaheuristic algorithms
Designed and developed algorithms to optimize the usage of construction machines
B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering Sep. 2011 to Apr. 2016 Khajeh Nassir-Al-Deen Toosi University of Technology SPECIALIZATION:
Tehran, Iran
Applied AI Solutions Development Program (Postgraduate) George Brown College, Toronto, ON
Relevant courses:
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Data Visualization
Ethics of AI
Relevant projects:
Collected tweets and developed a sentiment analysis pipeline on informal language
Developed a recommender system using the MovieLens dataset
Built a multi-faceted and interactive dashboard to visualize the Instacart data
Built the models to predict the stock price fluctuation based on the top daily news using FCNN and RNN architectures.
Built a facial expression detection model using the combination of CNN and Multi-Head Attention architecture
Developed sentiment analysis models for ChatGPT related tweets using transformer-based architecture
Sep. 2022 to Sep.2023
Toronto, Canada
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Data Scientist in GlieseAI Apr. 2023 to Sep. 2023
Co-op Toronto, Canada
Responsibilities:
Collected and integrated data from various APIs to build comprehensive datasets for market analysis.
Developed and implemented deep learning models on the cloud for market prediction to enable automatic day trading. Data Analyst in Jahesh Innovation Aug. 2021 to Aug.2022 Full-time Tehran, Iran
Responsibilities:
Educated Jahesh's startups on data analytics and AI
Identified business opportunities to solve with analytics
Designed and implemented multiple successful PoCs Data Analyst in Parseh Apr. 2021 to Aug.2021
Part-time contractor
Responsibilities:
Collected, pre-processed, and analyzed large sets of asset data
Predicted asset failures by leveraging SQL analytics capabilities
Published several visual reports and dashboards
Tehran, Iran
Project Manager in Javidan Engineering Building May. 2017 to Jan. 2020 Part-time Tehran, Iran
Responsibilities:
Prepared, monitored, and updated project timelines
Optimized and improved project cost and budget management
Coordinated complex end-to-end delivery schedules HONORS & AWARDS:
Ranked 1st GPA among 15 students for M.Sc. program
Ranked in the top 0.5% (5,000+ participants) in the national M.Sc. university entrance exam
Ranked in the top 5% (200,000+ participants) in the national B.Sc. university entrance exam TECH & RESEARCH SKILLS:
Programming Languages: Python, SQL
Analytics Tools: Jupyter, Spyder, MySQL, MangoDB, Tableau, Tableau Prep Builder, Lucidchart, PowerBI, SPSS
Project Management: Azure DevOps, Primavera, MS Project, Mural
Research: Natural language processing, Mathematical optimization, Genetic algorithms
Version Control System: Git