Parham Kazemi
Graduate Research Assistant
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolParham Kazemi is a software engineer and deep learning researcher with 9 years of experience building high-performance C++ tools and production-ready AI pipelines for large-scale genomics and signal processing. Currently a Graduate Research Assistant at BC Cancer and a PhD student at UBC, he develops SIMD-optimized libraries (ntHash2, ntStat) and trains CNN/Transformer models on terabyte-scale nanopore data using FlashAttention and GPU clusters. His work bridges academic research and production: six peer-reviewed papers, a provisional patent (2026), and Bioconda-packaged releases that make research software reproducible and deployable. Parham’s AIEdit demonstrates his focus on practical impact—delivering a 58% error reduction with far lower runtime and memory than prior approaches—while his contributions to the widely used bioconda-recipes repository show attention to build/release automation that keeps tools accessible.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of British ColumbiaMaster's degree, Artificial Intelligence Engineering, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence Engineering at University of Isfahan
English, Persian
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Github Skills (8)
bash10
conda10
package-management10
build-automation10
yaml9
bioinformatics9
mson8
mesonbuild8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Mar 2023 - May 2026
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 13 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Parham primarily contributed to building and maintaining conda recipes for the bioconda channel. Their commits involved updating build scripts and metadata files (`meta.yaml`), which is crucial for defining package dependencies and build processes. They also focused on integrating new software packages (ntStat and btllib) into the repository by creating the necessary build configurations. The user's work ensured successful package creation and integration within the Bioconda ecosystem.
biocondacondabioinformaticspackage-management
parham-k/parham-k.github.io
Dec 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 65 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 4 months
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