Hamidreza Chinaei AGE-WELL Highly Qualified Personnel Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer
Science Department
of Computer Science University of Toronto, and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute PhD in Computer Science, Laval
University, Québec, Québec, Canada MMath in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada |
I have moved to Montreal. I am currently a Senior NLP Research Engineer in the QuickNLU and Dialog Technology Group in Nuance Communications, Canada.
This is a research and development position in which I design and build dialog
systems, and improve their dialog strategies from their collected data.
I have been a postdoctoral fellow under
the supervision of Dr. Frank Rudzicz; I performed research and development of decision backends for IBM Watson Analytics
and for other technologies available at TRI.
My interests are in the areas of applied machine learning and
natural language processing, in particular, in sequential decision making and
its applications on healthcare dialogue management (and question answering),
cognitive computing, big data analytics, and human computer interaction.
Please find more details in my CV.
NEWS:
I have got a new position:
Senior NLP Research Engineer at Nuance Communications February 2017 – Present
R&D - QuickNLU and Dialog Technology Group
Our journal article has been
accepted in Computational Linguistics:
Chinaei, H.R., Danks,
A., Mehta, T., Chan-Currie, L. C., Lin, H., Rudzicz,
F. (2016). Identifying and avoiding confusion in
dialogue with people with Alzheimer's disease. Accepted in Computational Linguistics.
I teach CIND-110
(Introduction to Big Data) and CIND-119 (Data Organization for Data Analysts)
in the Big Data Analytics program at Ryerson University Fall 2016
I am a senior research
member for the Remote Monitoring of Neurodegeneration through Speech: Johns Hopkins University June 2016 – August 2016
Research Group of the 2016 Third Frederick Jelinek
Memorial Summer Workshop
I have been awarded AGEWELL HQP: $30,000 September 2015 - August 2017
AGE-WELL Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Awards in Technology and
Aging, TRI, Toronto, Canada
Our book is available through Springer and Amazon
(hard copy)
Frank and I won NSERC
Engage PI: Frank Rudzicz: $25,000 April 2015 - August 2015
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Engage to launch new research
collaboration with IBM Canada, UofT, Toronto, Canada
The methods I developed at IBM, its patent is
now pending:
Semi-Additive Data Modeling, CA820140267 - initial submission 2
September, 2014. CA920150035US1 - pending 8 June 2015
I teach CKCS-110 in the Big Data
Analytics program at Ryerson University each term since January 2015 (five times)
I have been awarded FRQNT Fellowship: $60,000 September 2014-August 2016
Québec research funding for nature and technology (FRQNT), Québec,
Canada