Syed Fahad Rizvi

Senior ML Engineer | MSCS at Georgia Tech

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

A seasoned machine learning engineer with more than 6 years of experience, focused primarily on computer vision. Alongside my job, I am currently enrolled in a part-time master's program at Georgia Tech. DISCLAIMER: All opinions shared on this platform are my own and do not reflect the sentiments of my current or past employers.

Experience

  • Derq (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
    • Senior Machine Learning Engineer (L4)
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

      Leveraging computer vision, deep learning and Bayesian statistics to: 1. Identify traffic violations and dangerous events (e.g. crashes and near-misses) 2. Send real-time vehicle-to-everything (V2X) messages 3. Detect presence for traffic signal controllers

    • Machine Learning Engineer III
      Jan 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Machine Learning Engineer II
      Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Graduate Research Assistant at Human-Augmented Analytics Group (OMSCS Research)
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Working on photogrammetry under Dr. Arthur Porto, details may be found under Projects.

  • Teradata (2 yrs)
    • Data Analyst
      Oct 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr

      Contributed to FinTech and healthcare initiatives within Teradata Americas.

    • Graduate Associate – Data Science
      Oct 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr

      Employed as part of the L.E.A.P Graduate Program. Provided support for retail and healthcare initiatives, details may be found in the Projects section.

  • Software Engineer – Machine Learning at Arbisoft
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2019 · 3 mos

    Built a neural word tokenizer (attaining an F1 score of 0.97 on a peculiarly difficult Urdu corpus).

  • Intern at Incline Artificial Intelligence
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2019 · 1 mo

    Contributed to the development of aerial surveillance through UAVs.