Arezou Pakzad
Data Science - ML Engineer
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About
I'm currently a graduate student at Simon Fraser University, working on Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Medical Image Analysis.
Experience
Graduate Research Assistant | MIAL, Simon Fraser University: Sep. 2021 – present
- Supervised by Prof. Ghassan Hamarneh
- Working on skin type fairness in medical image analysis and mitigating bias in skin lesion diagnosis
- Domain-invariant representation learning solution resulted in a paper published in ECCVW 2022
- Collaborated to develop a scalable dataset of annotated synthetic dermatology images, which resulted in a submitted paper
Teaching Assistant | Simon Fraser University, Sharif University of Technology: Sep. 2018 – present
- CMPT 105, CMPT 128 (SFU), Algorithm Design, Systems Analysis and Design, Data Structures, Intro. to Bioinformatics, Linear Algebra (SUT)
Undergraduate Research Assistant | Sharif University of Technology
- Supervised by Prof. MohammadHossein Rohban and Prof. Hamid Rabiee
- Developed a deep learning model to improve the SoTA performance on DSB 2018 cell segmentation
- Analyzed adversarial training methods for cell segmentation in microscopy images
Artificial Intelligence Intern | Quera - Iranian Developers Association
- Improved the artificial intelligence and machine learning online course and tutorials on Quera by adding more content and making the current content more well-explained
Software Developer | SoftNet Lab, Sharif University of Technology: Jun. 2018 – Sep. 2018
- Supervised by Prof. Babak Khalaj, in collaboration with Hamrah Avval - Iran’s largest mobile operator company
- Developed a ball-tracking system for the goalkeeper robot by video processing, using OpenCV library in Python
- Exhibited in Iran Telecom 2018 - The International Exhibition of Telecommunications, Information Technology, and
Innovative ICT Solutions - an audience of about 40,000 trade visitors and more than 300 exhibitors
Education
Simon Fraser University (SFU)
M.Sc. in Computing Science, GPA: 4.22/4.33
- Thesis: Bias Mitigation in Deep Learning-based Image Classification
Sharif University of Technology (SUT)
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, GPA: 19.04/20 (Ranked 11th among 111)
- Thesis: Evaluation of Adversarial Training for Deep Learning-based Cell Segmentation on Microscopy Images
