Biography
Arian Amani is a data scientist/research collaborator at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. His research interests include Representation Learning, Drug Discovery, Neural Network Generalization, and Single-Cell Genomics. He is a student at the Sapienza University of Rome, and a research assistant at the Lotfollahi Group, working on applications of machine learning, in various areas of life sciences, most importantly single-cell genomics and drug discovery.
Interests
- Deep Generative Models
- Drug Discovery & Genomics
- Single-Cell Genomics
- Adversarial Robustness
Education
BSc in Computer Science, 2020
Amirkabir University of Technology
Work Experience
Data Scientist
Responsibilities include:
- Research assistant at Dr. Mo Lotfollahi’s lab
- Collaborated on several ML projects in Single-Cell Genomics and Drug Discovery mainly using PyTorch
- Developed task-specific fine-tuning pipelines on generative and transformer models
- Contributed to ongoing projects like CPA: Compositional Perturbation Autoencoder (GitHub)
Computer Vision Engineer
Responsibilities include:
- Delivered >95% accuracy solutions for tasks with limited data (15 images per class)
- Spearheaded development on 5 diverse projects meeting client requirements
- Led individual projects, enhancing development pipelines
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Sharif University of Technology
- Machine Learning for Bioinformatics (Graduate Course) | Spring 2023
- Prepared teaching material on CNNs & AutoEncoders, designed assignments, and coordinated class contests.
- Introduction to Machine Learning | Fall 2022
- Designed and graded assignments for a class of 150 students, conducted a workshop on Variational AutoEncoders.
Teaching Assistant
Amirkabir University of Technology
- Introduction to Image Processing and Neural Networks | Fall 2022
- Conducted workshops and lectures on OpenCV and Deep Learning for a class of 80 students.
- Advanced Programming with C++ | Spring 2022
- Designed assignments and projects for a class of 90 students, evaluated student submissions.
Accomplishments
Deep Learning Specialization
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Sequence Models
Contact
- arianamaani@gmail.com
- Rome, Italy
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