Professional Experience
Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist
AI/ML Model Validation, TD Bank, Canada
2021 - present
Consultant (Data Scientist & OR Specialist)
Intelius AI, Canada
Multiple roles such as Operations Research Specialist, Data Scientist, Technical Team Lead, and Business Analyst in multiple Airline projects.
2019 - 2021
PhD Candidate Researcher (Supply Chain and Decision Sciences)
HEC Montreal - GERAD, Montreal, Canada
A PhD Candidate involved in 1) designing environmental regulations, 2) proposing best pricing and production strategies of a supply chain in response to those regulations, and 3) Exploring the financial and environmental aspects of such regulations.
Selected Accomplishments
- Designed a generalized framework to design and assess environmental regulations in Supply Chain context.
- Proved that environmental regulation's success depends on the responsibility dynamics of the supply chain.
- Explored the dynamic interplay of companies and regulators when municipalities are investing in green economy.
2015 - 2019
Education
HEC Montreal
Doctor of Philosophy
Business Administration - Decision Sciences
September 2015 - March 2019
Tehran Polytechnique
Master of Science
Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering
September 2009 - October 2011
K.N.Toosi University of Technology
Bachelor of Science
Industrial Engineering - Industrial Production
September 2005 - September 2009
Skills
Technical Skills
- Coding: Python, SQL, Familiar with R & Java.
- Statistical Learning Methods: Traditional Regression, Classification & Clustering (SVM, KNN, K-means, Logistic Regression), Ensemble methods (XGBoost, EBM), Neural Network (DNN, RNN), Time Series (RNN, SARIMA), Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning (Thompson Sampling).
- Cloud & Developing Platform: Azure Databricks.
- Version Control: Git.
Business Skills
- Pricing: Cost-based, Consumer behavior.
- Supply Chain Management: Supply Chain Network Design, Competition, Production Strategy.
- Regulation Design: Environmental, Transportation, Healthcare Services.
Certificates
From Deeplearning.ai, IBM, Stanford University, University of Michigan and LearnQuest on Coursera and EdX platforms.
Specilaiztions
- Deep Learning,
- Java as a Second Language,
Data Science & Programming Certificates
- Python for Data Science and AI,
- The Java Language,
- Machine Learning,
- Neural Network and Deep Learning,
- Data Visualization with Python,
- Databases and SQL for Data Science,
- Data Analysis with Python,
- Machine Learning with Python,
- Statistical Inference,
- Statistical Learning,
- Using Databases with Python,
- Convolutional Neural Network,
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects
- Writing Java Application Code,
Awards & Recognitions
- 2020: Winner of Air Canada AI Hackathon competition of 2020, Air Canada.
- 2019: Python, Statistics and SQL Gold Badges from HackerRank
Publications, Conference Proceedings & Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers:
- Pazoki, M., & Samarghandi, H. & Behroozi, M. (2024). Increasing Supply Chain Resiliecy Through Pricing and Stipulating Transportation Quota Regulation, Omega. 103097.
- Pazoki, M., & Zaccour, G. (2021). Dynamic Strategic Interactions between a Municipality and a Firm in the Presence of an Extended Producer Responsibility Regulation, Journal of Cleaner Production . 125966.
- Pazoki, M., & Samarghandi, H. (2021). Regulating patient care in walk-in clinics. Omega, 99, 102200.
- Pazoki, M., & Samarghandi, H. (2021). Word-Of-Mouth and Estimating Demand Based on Network Structure and Epidemic Models, European Journal of Operational Research . 291(1), 323-334.
- Pazoki, M., & Samarghandi, H. (2020). Take-back regulation: Remanufacturing or Eco-design?. International Journal of Production Economics, 227, 107674.
- Pazoki, M., & Zaccour, G. (2019). Extended producer responsibility: regulation design and responsibility sharing policies for a supply chain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 236, 117516.
- Pazoki, M., & Zaccour, G. (2019). A mechanism to promote product recovery and environmental performance. European Journal of Operational Research, 274(2), 601-614.
- Pazoki, M., & Abdul-Kader, W. (2016). Optimal disposition decisions for a remanufacturing system considering time value of products. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 99, 124-136.
- Pazoki, M., Ghomi, S. F., & Jolai, F. (2012). A multiproduct dynamic model to design a converge–diverge supply network with supplier partnership considerations. Scientia Iranica, 19(6), 1911-1920.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings:
- Pazoki, M., & Abdul-Kader, W., “A comparative study to investigate the effect of number of sub-lots in a multi-stage multi-product flowshop lot-streaming problem with consistent sub-lot sizes: A casestudy”, Industrial & Systems Engineering Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, (June 2014).
- Pazoki, M., & Abdul-Kader, W., “Considering holding cost in optimal core acquisition and remanufacturing policy under deterministic process times”, International Conference of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Bali, Indonesia, (January 2014).
- Pazoki, M., Fatemi Ghomi, S.M.T., & Jolai, F., “A new approach in supply chain modeling”, The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Singapore,(December 2011).
Technical Talks & Presentations:
- “A mechanism to promote product recovery and environmental performance”, 2nd Conference of the EURO Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2018.
- “Impact of Regulations and Horizontal Integration on Manufacturer Profitability”, Optimization Days, Montreal, Canada, May 2016.
- “Optimal core acquisition and remanufacturing decisions with market-driven product acquisition policy”, CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2015.
- “Incorporating WIP cost and sorting returned products in a remanufacturing process”, CANQUEUE conference, Waterloo, Canada, August 2013.