Ali Malek, Ph. D.

AI/ML Scientist | Materials Informatics & Computational Chemistry | PyTorch • RAG • Agentic AI • Knowledge Graphs | Building the Future of Clean Energy with LLM-Driven Innovation at NRC Canada

Canada

About

Experience

  • Research Officer at National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada
    Dec 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos

  • Visiting Machine Learning Researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    • Designed physics-informed Explainable AI (XAI) models using SHAP and XGBoost to enhance renewable energy systems. • Applied Graph Neural Network (GNN) classifiers for material stability assessment, achieving over 90% accuracy. • Contributed to the rapid screening and discovery of high-performance materials for clean energy applications. • Collaborated with a leading research institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, focusing on innovative energy technologies.

  • Research Scientist & Data Scientist at AFCC Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation Corp. (AFCC)
    Nov 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Maintaining and analyzing of data using VMDeL platform written in PHP larval on Heroku • Python data visualization and data analysis of atomistic datasets as output by large-scale MD/statics simulations. • Responsible for research on new polyelectrolytes membranes based on MD Simulations

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. Michael Eikerling Group at Simon Fraser University
    Nov 2014 - Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Coordinated theory and simulation methodologies for ab initio modeling of Pt electrocatalysis in PEMFCs as well as fundamental structural and electronic studies of graphene and N-doped graphene as catalyst support for Pt nanoparticles.

  • Visiting Research Scholar, Prof. Paul W. Ayers Group at McMaster University
    Feb 2013 - Sep 2013 · 8 mos

    • Software development contributor in dispatching a public version of HORTON software (https://theochem.github.io/horton/) • Spin chemical reactivity indicators for open shell systems • Investigation on the accuracy of Fukui function