Mehdi Rezagholizadeh#
Mehdi Rezagholizadeh is a Principal Member of the Technical Committee at AMD. Before joining AMD, he was a Principal Research Scientist at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab Canada, where he worked since 2017 and served as the leader of the Canada NLP team for over six years. His research and projects focused on deep learning and its applications in NLP, computer vision (CV), and speech processing. He has contributed to advancements in generative adversarial networks, computational NLP, and efficient solutions for training, model architecture, and inference of pre-trained models. Mehdi holds more than 15 patents and has authored over 50 publications in leading conferences and journals, including TACL, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, EACL, Interspeech, and ICASSP. Additionally, he has actively contributed to the academic and industrial communities by organizing prominent workshops, such as the NeurIPS Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP) workshops (2021–2024), and by serving on technical committees for ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and EACL, including as Area Chair and Senior Area Chair for NAACL 2024. Over his career, he has successfully supervised more than 20 M.Sc. and Ph.D. interns in both industrial and academic settings. He earned his B.Sc. in 2009 and M.Sc. in 2011 from the University of Tehran and completed his Ph.D. in 2016 at McGill University in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Centre for Intelligent Machines).
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