Mehdi Fatemi
Principal Research Scientist at Snorkel AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMehdi Fatemi is a Principal Research Scientist with 15 years of deep experience in reinforcement learning and sequential reasoning, currently driving research at Snorkel AI after leadership roles at Wand and Microsoft. He focuses on enabling “active thinking” in AI through value-based RL, with landmark contributions including concise reasoning, dead-end theory, dynamical causality, and state-of-the-art detoxification of large language models via far-sighted reasoning. A scientist by training (PhD from McMaster) and an accomplished practitioner, he has set a world record in Ms. Pac-Man using value-based methods and holds multiple US patents in RL. Equally at home in math and high-quality code, he regularly mentors and consults on computational programming and has had his work highlighted by outlets such as MIT News, Time, and BBC.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computational Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Computational Science and Engineering at McMaster UniversityB.Sc. Physics, B.Sc. Physics at Shiraz UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Computational Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computational Science at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Github Skills (31)
algorithms10
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
discount10
reinforcement-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
jax10
reward10
dqn9
medical8
gymnasium8
algorithm8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/mimic_sepsis
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Sepsis cohort from MIMIC dataset
Contributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 2 months
sepsisdatasetcohortmimic
microsoft/med-deadend
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Code for the Medical Deadend Paper at NeurIPS 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
neurips-2021neuripsmachine-learningdeadendmedical
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