Tina Sedaghat
Machine learning engineer in Toronto, Canada.
Work
Layer 6 AI — Machine Learning Engineer
2025–present
- Work on AI systems using large language models.
- Research reinforcement-learning approaches for Text-to-SQL.
Autodesk — Machine Learning Engineer
2022–2025
Autodesk — Data Scientist Intern
2022
University of Toronto — Teaching Assistant
2019–2022
- CSC108 — Introduction to Computer Programming (five semesters).
- CSC2511/401 — Natural Language Computing.
- CSC343 — Introduction to Databases.
York University · BioMotion Lab — Web Developer
2019
- Reimplemented a web application for visualising and experimenting with human gait patterns.
- Worked with PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and MySQL.
Noa Games — Junior Android Developer Intern
2017
- Worked on the fundamentals of Android development.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science — University of Toronto
2019–2021
- Researched wearable sensing for healthcare and assistive technologies.
- Studied anomaly detection for medical time series.
- Thesis: “Unobtrusive Monitoring of COPD Patients using Speech Collected from Smartwatches in the Wild.”
- Co-authored “CoughWatch: Real-world Cough Detection Using Smartwatches” (IEEE ICASSP, 2021).
- Co-authored “Unobtrusive Monitoring of COPD Patients using Speech Collected from Smartwatches in the Wild” (IEEE PerCom Workshops, 2022).
Bachelor of Computer Engineering — Amirkabir University of Technology
2014–2018
- Thesis: “Design and Implementation of a Wearable Health Monitoring System for the Elderly.”