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General Information

Full Name Sofian Zalouk

Education

  • 2020 -
    M.S. in Computer Science
    Stanford University
    • Advised by Stefano Ermon and Andrew Ng
    • Concentration - Artificial Intelligence
  • 2015 - 2020
    B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
    University of Toronto
    • Ranked 1st out of over 100 students in department (2015, 2020)

Academic Experience

  • 2020 -
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    • Uncertainty quantification and diffusion models with Stefano Ermon
    • Machine Learning for healthcare with Andrew Ng and Sharon Zhou
  • Summer 2022
    Research Assistant
    Ford-Stanford University Collaboration
    • Active learning and image segmentation with Andrew Ng and Ram Rajagopal
  • 2019 - 2020
    Undergraduate Researcher
    University of Toronto
    • Monocular depth estimation with Andreas Moshovos

Industry Experience

  • 2018 - 2019
    Software Engineer (Intern)
    Intel
    • Worked on LLVM compiler to analyze and accelerate deep learning tasks on FPGAs
    • Improved Intel’s OpenCL memory management, reducing runtime and memory overhead by an order of complexity
  • Summer 2018
    ASIC Design Engineer (Intern)
    NVIDIA
    • Design and verification of processors for deep learning

Teaching Experience

  • Spring 2021
    Stanford CS 229 (Machine Learning) TA
  • Winter 2021
    Stanford CS 236G (Generative Adversarial Networks) TA

Open Source Projects

  • Spring 2023
    Measuring and Reducing Bias in LLMs introduced by RLHF (Code | Poster | Paper)
    • Awarded “Best Project” in Stanford’s CS 224R for identifying and mitigating bias in LLMs due to RLHF
    • Identified and mitigated increased bias in LLMs using a post-hoc self-debiasing method
  • Winter 2021
    Data Augmentation for Speech Recognition (Code | Paper)
    • Established the project as the leading implementation of MaskCycleGAN-VC on GitHub, evidenced by being the most starred repository in its category
    • Generated African American Vernacular English utterances from generic American English to address data scarcity

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    Best Project Award
    Stanford University
    • CS 224R (Deep Reinforcement Learning)
  • 2015 - 2020
    Outstanding Student Award
    University of Toronto
    • Awarded to the top 3 students in Electrical Engineering
  • 2020
    W.S. Wilson Medal
    University of Toronto
    • Awarded to student with highest academic standing in the graduating year
  • 2016
    Baptie Scholarship
    University of Toronto
    • Awarded to students with high academic standing (top 1%)