Rushdi Shams, PhD
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Experience
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DistillerSR
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Canada
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Jul 2023 - Present
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Scientist II
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Oct 2021 - Jun 2023
• Combine a range of data-science methodologies with deep understanding of business area, build scalable and reliable products and POCs, and develop/audit metrics to quantify the benefits of a solution in oil and gas, retail, gaming, automobile, airlines, banking, and insurance sector. • Incorporate expertise from engineers and SMEs to apply best practices to deliver significant benefits to business. • Manage customer projects from kick-off to project closure with high-quality engagement delivery framework to enable customers with their business outcomes. • Products developed: Recommendation engines, language toxicity detection, forecasting pipelines, customer intelligence engines, loyalty prediction from conversation, and churn prediction engines. Show less
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OneClass
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Canada
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E-Learning Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Sep 2017 - May 2021
• Planned, prioritized, designed, and built ML/NLP landscape of the company by leading the development of POCs and online/offline products using user-generated contents. • Worked with C-suite executives, investors, product team, and data engineers to identify areas critical to business and revenue, proposed solutions, and resolved root cause of issues in production and staged environment. • Products developed: Content filter, automatic content generator, automatic content cataloging, personalized content recommendation, and intelligent search engine. Show less
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Morningstar Sustainalytics
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Digital Innovation Specialist
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Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
• Independently owned, researched, and developed ML/NLP POCs, products, and artifacts to solve challenging, ambiguous, and large ESG text-related problems by collaborating closely with the BI, developers, and data team. • Products developed: Intelligent data harvester, summarizer, ESG trend predictor, and Incident detection tool. • Independently owned, researched, and developed ML/NLP POCs, products, and artifacts to solve challenging, ambiguous, and large ESG text-related problems by collaborating closely with the BI, developers, and data team. • Products developed: Intelligent data harvester, summarizer, ESG trend predictor, and Incident detection tool.
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Western University
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Canada
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Responsibilities: Literature review; design and development of solutions for text data normalization and news summary generation problems from single and multiple articles; writing and publishing academic papers in journals and conferences. Key accomplishments:• Created an algorithm based on linguistics and psychology to detect informative areas in texts with an average of 78% accuracy for multiple datasets from physics, economics, biomedical, sports, and weather domain.• Developed a single and multi-document text summarizer that selects salient sentences based on writing style of authors with an F-score of 98% on multiple standard datasets. Show less
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Sep 2010 - Aug 2014
Responsibilities: Preparation of teaching and supplementary materials for principle instructors; evaluation of student performances; assistance in class lectures and lab assessments for courses including.Key accomplishments:• Nominated as best TA for AI in the department of Computer Science, Western University in 2012-13. • Completed certification for Communication in Canadian Classroom from Western Teaching Support Center.• Completed certification for Theory and Practice in University Teaching from Western Teaching Support Center. Show less
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Sep 2010 - Aug 2014
I worked on an NSERC discovery grant funded project where I attempted to identify information richness in text using natural language stylometry. Stylometry is a study of linguistics that is used to examine author writing styles.Duties:-----------Formulate problems, review literature, design and implement scientific methods, collect, preprocess and curate data, perform statistical analysis, document results, report to supervisor.
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Instructor
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May 2008 - Aug 2010
Manage large class, teach CCNA curriculum, demonstrate and evaluate lab skills. Passed the Cisco Certified Network Instructor certification program. Manage large class, teach CCNA curriculum, demonstrate and evaluate lab skills. Passed the Cisco Certified Network Instructor certification program.
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Khulna University of Engineering and Technology
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Higher Education
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400 - 500 Employee
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Assistant Professor
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Mar 2008 - Aug 2010
Collaborated with faculty members to plan out theory and lab classes for courses viz. programming, operating systems, database, AI and machine translation with 90% student satisfaction rate. Supervised and evaluated final-year Bachelor and Master’s thesis for tangible research contribution in the scientific community and publish in conferences and journals. Collaborated with faculty members to plan out theory and lab classes for courses viz. programming, operating systems, database, AI and machine translation with 90% student satisfaction rate. Supervised and evaluated final-year Bachelor and Master’s thesis for tangible research contribution in the scientific community and publish in conferences and journals.
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The University of Bolton
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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Oct 2007 - Jan 2008
Formulate problems, review literature, design and implement scientific methods, document results, report to supervisor. Gained experience to work in Machine-mediated multi-modal communications lab in an industry-level project. Formulate problems, review literature, design and implement scientific methods, document results, report to supervisor. Gained experience to work in Machine-mediated multi-modal communications lab in an industry-level project.
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Education
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The University of Western Ontario
PhD, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning -
The University of Bolton
MSc, Information Technology -
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology
BSc, Computer Science