Available for opportunities

Mohammad Etemad

Ph.D., ex-PMP, ex-PMI-ACP

AI/ML Engineer

Specializing in LLMs, fine-tuning & scalable AI | Built & deployed 5+ AI agents | Turning research into real-world automation, insights & scale

North York, Ontario, Canada
Mohammad Etemad

30+

Publications

590+

Citations

Areas of Expertise

LLM Fine-Tuning & AI Development Cloud-Native AI Deployment (AWS EKS Fargate) End-to-End AI Product Development MLOps Best Practices Vector Databases AI-driven Automation

About Me

Mohammad is an AI/ML Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dalhousie University, where he worked under professor Stan Matwin on Spatial-Temporal Data mining with a focus on AIS Data. His research interests include Mobility Data Analysis, Data Mining, and Spatial-Temporal data semantics. Mohammad has worked in the software industry since 2006 and founded Scitus Solutions Ltd., a consulting company providing AI/ML engineering services. He has published 30+ papers with 590+ citations.

Work Experience

Senior Engineer

Notch Ordering Inc.

May 2024 - N/A

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Founder / Principal Consultant

Scitus Solutions Ltd.

Jan 2023 - Present

Canada

Current

AI/ML Engineer

Berkeley Payment Solutions

Jan 2022 - Mar 2024

Canada (Remote)

Full-time Instructor

Dalhousie University

Jul 2021 - Jun 2022

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Featured Publications

Journal 2024

Enhancing short-term vessel trajectory prediction with clustering for heterogeneous and multi-modal movement patterns

Md Mahbub Alam, Gabriel Spadon, Mohammad Etemad, Evangelos Milios

Journal Article

Conference 2023

Charting the Course of Ship Track Prediction: A Novel Approach for Maritime Traffic Analysis

Lubna Eljabu, Mohammad Etemad, Stan Matwin

IEEE Big Data 2023

Journal 2022

Understanding evolution of maritime networks from automatic identification system data

Emanuele Carlini, Vinicius Monteiro de Lira, Amílcar Soares, Mohammad Etemad, Bruno Brandoli, Stan Matwin

GeoInformatica 26(3)

Let's Work Together

Interested in AI/ML consulting, research collaboration, or have a project in mind?