Ali Rasekh
@alirasekh
Senior AI engineer and researcher building explainable multimodal and generative systems from lab to production.
What I'm looking for
I’m a PhD-trained AI researcher focused on multimodal learning, video/image LLMs, and generative AI, with publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, BMVC, and ICRA. I bring 6+ years of industry experience leading AI teams, and I’m driven by turning foundational advances into systems that work in the real world.
At L3S Research Center in Germany, I pioneer methods for temporal understanding in Video-LLMs and develop explainable multimodal systems. I enjoy bridging research and deployment—designing models that are not only effective, but also understandable.
In industry, I’ve built production-scale AI services for personalization, recommendation engines, and anomaly detection. At Digikala, I architected and deployed AI services serving 40M+ monthly active users, led large-scale recommendation development, implemented fraud/bot anomaly detection, and improved diversity using graph-based models and knowledge graphs (Neo4j).
More recently as a Senior AI Engineer, I designed AI-driven mobility and tourism solutions using large-scale datasets, built agentic LLM-based systems for personalized route planning and dialog-based recommendations, and created data-driven pipelines to optimize service quality. Earlier roles include data science work for home price prediction using XGBoost and software engineering experience with C#/.NET.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior AI Engineer (GenAI)
MotoresAI
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)
Designed and developed AI-driven mobility and tourism solutions using large-scale mobility datasets. Built agentic AI systems for personalized route planning and dialog-based recommendations, including data-driven pipelines and explainable recommendation methods.
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
L3S Research Center
Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)
Conducting PhD research focused on multimodal learning and generative AI. Working on Video-LLMs and foundation models, including temporal understanding and explainable multimodal systems.
AI Researcher
EPFL
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 (2 years)
Conducted research and published in top-tier AI venues. Developed novel diffusion-model methods for human pose prediction.
Senior Data Scientist & Team Lead
Digikala
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 (3 years)
Architected and deployed production AI services for personalization and product discovery serving 40M+ monthly active users. Led work on recommendation engines, anomaly detection for fraud/bot filtering, and graph-based knowledge graph models using Neo4j, alongside scalable real-time data pipelines.
Data Scientist
Offerland
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)
Developed home price prediction models using large-scale Canadian real-estate datasets. Engineered and optimized regression models with XGBoost and ensemble learning, including feature engineering and selection.
Software Engineer
Hamkaran System (SystemGroup)
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years)
Developed and maintained enterprise-level financial and HR software solutions. Worked with C# and .NET to deliver and support application functionality.
Research Assistant
NUS - National University of Singapore
Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 7 months)
Worked as a research assistant at NUS. Responsibilities and specific technical contributions were not provided.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
L3S Research Center
PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
2023 -
PhD in Artificial Intelligence focused on multimodal learning, generative AI, video LLMs, and foundation models. Published in NeurIPS 2025, ICLR 2025, BMVC 2025, and ICRA 2023.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
AI Researcher, Human Pose Prediction (Diffusion Models)
2021 - 2023
Worked as an AI researcher developing diffusion-model methods for human pose prediction. Published a paper in ICRA, a top-tier robotics conference.
Sharif University of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering
2015 - 2019
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering.
Sharif University of Technology
Master of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
2019 - 2021
Master of Artificial Intelligence with an MST thesis on interpretable pixel-wise segmentation of lung nodules in CT images.
National University of Singapore
Research Assistant
2019 -
Served as a research assistant in 2019.
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