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General Information
Full Name | Sofian Zalouk |
Education
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2020 - M.S. in Computer Science
Stanford University - Advised by Stefano Ermon and Andrew Ng
- Concentration - Artificial Intelligence
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2015 - 2020 B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
University of Toronto - Ranked 1st out of over 100 students in department (2015, 2020)
Academic Experience
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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
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Summer 2022 Research Assistant
Ford-Stanford University Collaboration - Active learning and image segmentation with Andrew Ng and Ram Rajagopal
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2019 - 2020 Undergraduate Researcher
University of Toronto - Monocular depth estimation with Andreas Moshovos
Industry Experience
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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
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Summer 2018 ASIC Design Engineer (Intern)
NVIDIA - Design and verification of processors for deep learning
Teaching Experience
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Spring 2021 Stanford CS 229 (Machine Learning) TA
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Winter 2021 Stanford CS 236G (Generative Adversarial Networks) TA
Open Source Projects
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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
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2023 Best Project Award
Stanford University - CS 224R (Deep Reinforcement Learning)
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2015 - 2020 Outstanding Student Award
University of Toronto - Awarded to the top 3 students in Electrical Engineering
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2020 W.S. Wilson Medal
University of Toronto - Awarded to student with highest academic standing in the graduating year
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2016 Baptie Scholarship
University of Toronto - Awarded to students with high academic standing (top 1%)