Veria Havary-Nassab - Data Scientist, TELUS

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Work Background

University of Toronto School of Continuing StudiesData Science, Cloud Technologies Instructor

Jan. 2021 - May. 2022Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTeaching “Cloud Technologies for Big Data and AI” with focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

TELUSData Scientist

Dec. 2020Toronto, Ontario, Canada- Leveraging GenAI and large language models (LLMs) to address procurement use-cases - Providing GenAI and LLM training for TELUS leaders to identify relevant use-cases across the company - Establishing a Generative AI center of excellence (GenAI COE) to coordinate and direct GenAI efforts across the corporations - Building ML and DL models to enrich data and provide insights and analytics for better decision making - Building a data pipeline on Google cloud platform (GCP) to consolidate all procurement data from multiple different sources to build a unified reporting platform

TELUS DigitalData Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer

Nov. 2018 - Dec. 2020Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDesign, development and deployment of machine learning algorithms for a variety of used cases such as - Anomaly/fraud detection - recommendation systems (popularity, user based, product based) - Scoring and prioritizing business leads - Customer behaviour prediction Platforms used: GCP : Cloud functions, App engines, BiqQuery, Data Store,Firestore, Cloud Fusion, Cloud Storage, Stackdriver logging, pubsub, Datalab, etc.. AWS: Openshift Programming languages: Python, Node JS Models Delivered as RESTful APIs with authentication, A/B testing, logging.

Project X Ltd.Senior Consultant

Oct. 2015 - Oct. 2018Selected Responsibilities: • Managing incoming analytics, assessments and reporting requests and engaging stakeholders to understand the underlying business problem, base assumptions and desired outcomes • Supervising the preparation of business requirement document through managing work sessions with the clients and stakeholders • Assessing the requirements based on the knowledge of the available tools and infrastructures and designing solutions in coordination with the development team • Breaking down the required analysis and development activities into single tasks and assigning each task to the proper resource • Planning required testing for each milestone and supervising the preparation of test cases and verifying test results • Managing the post implementation support by closely watching the system in production, communicating with the clients to ensure proper and expected functionality • Preparing and maintaining the project documentation • Providing knowledge transfer, product demos and training

BellSenior IT Consultant

Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2018Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaSelected Responsibilities: • Managing incoming analytics, assessments and reporting requests and engaging stakeholders to understand the underlying business problem, base assumptions and desired outcomes • Supervising the preparation of business requirement document through managing work sessions with the clients and stakeholders • Assessing the requirements based on the knowledge of the available tools and infrastructures and designing solutions in coordination with the development team • Breaking down the required analysis and development activities into single tasks and assigning each task to the proper resource • Planning required testing for each milestone and supervising the preparation of test cases and verifying test results • Managing the post implementation support by closely watching the system in production, communicating with the clients to ensure proper and expected functionality • Preparing and maintaining the project documentation • Providing knowledge transfer, product demos and training

Seneca College of Applied Arts and TechnologyPart Time Faculty

Jan. 2013Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCourses taught: 1- Introduction to Programming Using C 2-An introduction to Java for C++ Programmers Covering: Console Application Development, Applets and Web applications, Graphical user interface using Java, Networking and socket programming with Java, Multi threading, Java exception handling, I/O programming in Java, JDBC 3- enterprise Java Beans Covering Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) hierarchy and structure, servlets, JSP, JavaBeans, JMS, enterprise applications development, ...

University of TorontoInstructor/ Teaching Assistant

Sep. 2010 - Apr. 2013Toronto, Ontario, CanadaI have been teaching, tutoring or assisting many courses at university of Toronto including: Computer Programming with C, Calculus I and II, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Electric and Magnetic Fields, Programming with Java, Object oriented programming using C++, Signals and Systems, Probability and Random Processes, Dynamic Systems and Control, Communication Systems, Algorithms and Data Structure, Digital Communication.

University of TorontoResearch Associate, PhD Candidate

Sep. 2008 - Dec. 2014Toronto, Ontario, Canada• Dissertation title:“Mobility Diversity: Enhancing Mobile Wireless Networks Sensing, Localizing and Communicating” • Courses Taken : System modeling and analysis, Control of stochastic processes, Packet Switching and queuing theory, Statistical theory of communication, Mobile communication systems • Published/submitted/prepared 3 conference papers and 3 journal papers • Areas of research: Compressive sensing for spectrum sensing, distributed compressive sensing, localization in mobile sensor networks, Mobility diversity in mobile wireless networks, Cramer-Rao bound in mobile network localization, stochastic cramer-rao bound analysis of mobile networks, mobility models in vehicular networks Projects Completed • Performance evaluation of an antenna selection 2x2 MIMO communication scheme for mobile station to base station link sponsored by Research In Motion (RIM) and Communication Research Canada (CRC) • Implementation of an antenna selection scheme for a 2 by 2 MIMO OFDM communication system using 3GPP - Spacial Channel Model (SCP) for MATLAB to study the effct of the non-ideal RF front end impairments on the performance of base station to mobile station communication in a practical scenario • Studying the effect of denial of service (DoS) attacks on networks using tiny buffers through NS2 simulations (Published in INFOCOM workshop)

University of Ontario Institute of TechnologyResearch Associate

Feb. 2007 - Sep. 2008Oshawa, Ontario, CanadaPublished 3 journal papers and 5 conference papers in MIMO communication, cooperative communication, relay networks. Research Areas: • Distributed beam-forming for relay networks based on second order statistics of CSI • General rank beam-forming fin cooperative communication with a multi-antenna relay node • Power and performance optimization in bi-directional relaying schemes Projects completed • Implementation of a blind channel and CFO estimation algorithm in a MIMO channel on the Signalion's HALO 4x4 MIMO testbeds • Implementing a two-way 2 by 2 MIMO OFDM communication system with video real-time playback capabilities using WARP wireless research platform. (http://warp.rice.edu/) • Simulation and performance evaluation of a distributed beam-forming communication scheme using MATLAB and Simulink • Simulation and performance evaluation of a joint uplink, downlink relaying scheme using a multi-antenna relay node with dependent uplink and downlink channel state information using MATLAB • Simulation and performance evaluation of bi-directional relaying schemes cooperative communication

SAIPA Vehicle Manufacturing CompanyTehQuality control expert for electronic parts

Apr. 2006 - Feb. 2007Tehran, IranQuality control expert in electric and electronic parts • Technical quality report about the noise e↵ects and reception quality issues in Rio and Pride (KIA Motors) radios • Technical quality report about the airbag electronic control unit (ECU) and it’s malfunctions in Xantia (Citroen) • Quality management department’s expert in the “Xantia car crash investigation committee”. • Member of the team to renew the tests for radio antenna’s quality

IT development CenterBusiness Analyst

Jan. 2003 - Jan. 2004IT Development Center (MAGFA with persian acronyms) is a joint venture investment company in High-Tech projects. Responsibilities: • Project manager in business planning and consultation for the first iranian IT-museum • Project coordinator in business planning for the “Building Management System” project. • Business planning and consultation for the first Iranian value added SMS service provider company