David A
M.Sc. Student Researcher at Mila - Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid A is an M.Sc. student researcher at Mila and a seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience bridging AI research and production backend systems. He holds a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Universidad Panamericana (scholarship recipient) and is pursuing graduate studies in ECE at McGill, bringing rigorous academic foundations to practical ML work. His background includes internships and roles at Meta, Lyft, Nissan, and Huawei Canada, where he shipped full-stack and backend solutions and contributed to NLP, voice conversion, and GAN-based generative projects. Proficient in C/C++, Python, JavaScript and PyTorch, he moves fluidly between research prototypes and deployable tooling. Based in Montreal, he combines deep learning research interests with hands-on engineering discipline, often focusing on data-driven analysis and visualization to validate models. An avid NLP and AI practitioner, he pairs curiosity about foundational methods with a track record of delivering real-world systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mechatronics Robotics, Mechatronics Robotics at Cbtis 168Postgraduate Degree Specialty in Engineering and Quality of Software Projects, Postgraduate Degree Specialty in Engineering and Quality of Software Projects at Universidad PanamericanaMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University
Spanish, English, Japanese, French, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
visualize7
thai7
linguistics6
creative-commons5
industrial5
sentence5
translation4
data-format4
vision-and-language4
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
visual-question-answering3
aerospike3
image-retrieval3
information-retrieval2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dahrs/OSTI
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
OSTI is an open-source tool to process and visualize a pair of bilingual documents (original and translation) into automatically labeled sentence pairs.
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
nlpsentencebilingualvisualizetranslation
project-miracl/project-miracl.github.io
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Website for the MIRACL (Multilingual Information Retrieval Across a Continuum of Languages) Challenge at WSDM 2023
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes in 2 months
information-retrieval
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