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Mahdi Eghbali

@mahdieghbali

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Senior AI / ML Solutions | Full Stack Engineer

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building production ML/AI systems (LLMs, vision, forecasting) with clear impact, rigorous evaluation, and collaboration across research and product teams.

-Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, training, evaluating, and deploying production-grade AI and data science systems across healthcare, fintech, enterprise automation, and supply-chain platforms.

-Delivered business-critical platforms in high-traffic commerce, B2B mobility, and healthcare, across React, Node.js, .NET, GraphQL, and cloud-native infrastructure.

-Passionate about AI and its real-world impact by improving model performance (ROC-AUC, F1, MAPE), reducing inference latency, and operationalizing classification, anomaly detection, time-series forecasting, NLP, and LLM-based systems at scale.

-Strong expertise in model evaluation, drift monitoring, explainability, and regulated AI deployments, owning the full ML lifecycle from raw data ingestion to production inference.

-Experienced in building high-impact AI systems that directly affect patient access, financial risk reduction, operational reliability, and data-driven decision-making.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Assistant Professor of Finance

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University of Puget Sound

Jun 2025 - Present (7 months)

Appointed faculty teaching and researching at the intersection of finance and AI, contributing to curriculum development and interdisciplinary projects since 2025.

Research Teaching Data Analysis Econometrics AI in Finance Collaboration

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AI / ML Solutions Engineer

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Flowntro

May 2017 - Present (8 years 8 months)

Delivered end-to-end AI/ML solutions for startups and enterprises across fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce, building computer vision, CAD, and LLM/RAG systems that improved detection sensitivity and reduced inference latency for production deployments.

Python PyTorch TensorFlow Object Detection LLM RAG OpenCV CUDA

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University

Aug 2022 - Jun 2025 (2 years 10 months)

Conducted research in AI, blockchain, and entrepreneurial finance while contributing to data science and ML projects and publishing findings in academic forums from 2022 to 2025.

Research Econometrics Causal Inference Experimentation Data Science

Research Associate

Mayo Clinic

Jan 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year 9 months)

Delivered fund risk analytics and econometric models to support oversight and portfolio construction for medtech startups, improving risk assessment and experiment design.

Risk Modeling Econometrics Causal Inference A B Testing Data & Analytics Experimentation

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Arizona State University

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Interdisciplinary AI and Finance

2022 - 2025

Activities and societies: Collaborated with interdisciplinary scholars, contributed to scholarly publications and conference presentations, and participated in data science projects.

Postdoctoral research scholar conducting research in AI, blockchain, digital transformation, and entrepreneurial finance and contributing to data science and ML projects.