I am a researcher and developer in the field of AI/ML, having ample experience working with multimedia data. I have advanced knowledge of Machine Learning and Deep Learning, building from first principles.
Currently, I am based in Toronto, Canada 🍁.
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Multimedia Data Processing
- Vision + Language AI (VLMs, LLMs), Generative Modeling (Diffusion), etc.
- University of Toronto: MSc in Applied Computing, major in AI.
- JMI University: Bachelors in Computer Engineering.
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Past ML Research Intern at Samsung AI Center Toronto: Improved smartphone camera technology using AI. Submitted a paper/patent in review (CVPR 2025).
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Academic Research Internships:
- Ulm University, Germany. Spent two months in-person.
- ENS-PSL, France.
- IISc Bangalore, India.
- IIIT - Allahabad, India.
Five publications so far, including one in ECCV Workshop 2022, worked with large-scale data (>2.1M), curated and open-sourced synthetic dataset that got >1300 downloads on Kaggle so far.
- LinkedIn: Umar Masud
- Email: [um71000][at][gmail.com]
Feel free to explore my repositories and reach out if you have any questions or collaboration ideas!