Hey, I'm
Parsa Mazaheri

I’m an NLP Graduate student at UC Santa Cruz. I have 3.5 years of experience as a Software Engineer and 1.5 year of research experience in Machine Learning. I am passionate about Deep Learning and Software Engineering.



Field of Interest

Deep Learning

Natural Language Processing

Software Development


Education
 
 
2022 - 2023
 
 
Masters Natural Language Processing
Unniversity of California - Santa Cruz
  • GPA: 3.96/4
  • Project with Cisco on Interpreting Hallucination in Large Language Models
 
 
2017 - 2021
 
 
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
K.N. Toosi University of Technology
  • Senior year student with 3.41 GPA (Top 25% of the class)
  • Last 2 years' GPA: 3.74/4
  • B.S. Thesis: Compact Pedestrian Detection using Tiny YOLO
  • Doing research beside the study (More Specific in Resume)
 
 
2013 - 2017
 
 
Math-Physic Diploma
Allame Helli High School
  • Graduated with 3.87 GPA

Honors
 
 
Up to Now
 
 
  • Ranked within the top 2% of Iranian University Entrance Exam for Bachelor’s Degree
  • ACM / ICPC International contest - 2nd place - Asia Region 2017 (Link)
  • A board member of the K.N. Toosi University of Technology ACM Chapter (Link)

Professional Experiences
 
 
     Up to Now     
 
 
Teaching Assistant
University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Teaching Assistant - Programming Abstractions
K.N. Toosi University of Technology
  • Teaching Assistant - Fundamental of programming
  • Teaching Assistant - Intorduction to Computer Vision
  • Teaching assistant - Design and Analysis
  • Teaching assistant - Software Engineering
 
 
  Jul 2021 - Sep 2022  
 
 
Team Lead
Tapsell Inc.
I was in charge of the Tapsell Reportage platform, where I worked closely with my team on website design and leading a team of 5 people
  • Designed a new service for reportage ads adding to ad services, and integrated with current systems at the time.
  • Used Gradient Boosting to optimize ad targeting to 45 million unique viewers and 28 Billion views/month.
  • Worked on ad studio in the CM project, streamlining ad creation, enhancing art department efficiency, and minimizing turnaround time between designers and customers.
 
 
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
 
 
Software Engineer
ADA Inc.
In ADA, I started as an intern for course requirement and worked in two departments, including ML and software:
  • ML: Designed the Credit Card scanner (OCR) – worked with attention, transformers, and model optimization.
  • Backend: Backend design with Django and Spring for the crypto program wallet and trade pool.
  • Architected advanced data processing techniques with Numpy to efficiently handle and analyze large volumes of coin data, enabling faster trade decisions.

Skills

 Programming Languages

C/C++

Python

Java

JavaScript


Industry Knowledge

Software development

Unit Testing

Machine Learning Fundamentals

Agile methodology


Machine Learning

Pytorch

Tensorflow

Keras

OpenCV

Scikit-Learn

Numpy


Backend Development

Django

Django-Rest-Framrwork

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra


Design

HTML

CSS

Bootstrap

React


Other

Docker

Linux

Git

Rest API


About Me


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I am currently a software engineer at Tapsell. Currently, my job is primary on software development with python were I use Django and Django-Rest-Framework for backend development. I'm also the team-lead of the project where I work with my team on the development, design, and maintenance of the service. My research interest generally consists of Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Software Development. Additionally, I also worked part-time as research assistant with professor Yao at GMU on semmantic parsing and mostly focus on the NLP field on my research experiences.

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