Vahid Partovi Nia is Principal Machine Learning Scientist at Noah's Ark Research Lab of Huawei Technologies, Adjunct Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, and part time faculty at McGill University. He is a member of The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science. His mission is to make a bridge between the expertise in academia, and the cutting-edge technology in the domain of machine learning and artificial intelligence in industry. His research interest is diverse and is application-oriented including Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Efficient Computing, and Biostatistics. He was Swiss SNF funded postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, visiting scholar at Stanford University, and received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lasuanne, Switzerland.
His hobbies include science, smart technology, data analysis, music, dance, computing, blogging, and Esperanto.