Aidin Ferdowsi

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Capital One

About me

• Expert in building and operating high-traffic distributed systems for AI-driven search and discovery experiences, with a focus on conversational AI and deep learning.

• PhD in distributed machine learning and generative models.

• Extensive experience leading cross-functional teams in designing advanced ML/AI solutions, particularly in Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), to enhance user interaction.

• Proven track record in executing 0-1 projects in highly ambiguous environments, delivering top-tier scalable and robust systems.

• Proficient in cloud technologies with certification in AWS solutions architecture, ensuring the development of scalable and efficient systems.

In Summary, if you ask me a question about NLP, Search, and LLMs, I probably will have a relevant answer.

Capital One Eno Chatbot

Notable Projects

Eno is available to help and answer questions right in the Capital One mobile app. I worked on dialog management, natural language understanding, and natural language processing components of this app.

Capital One Site Search

Backend for Capitalone.com search. I worked on the search algorithm development and implementation of this feature on web and mobile app.

Guardrails for LLMs

Building Guardrails for Capital One LLM models. I am working on a POC that uses Nemo Guardrails to develop ethical gen AI platforms for Capital One.

Autocomplete

Designed autocomplete systems to suggest relevant options in real-time. I worked on implementation and maintaining of a transformer based autocomplete model that's used in L1 box of Capital One mobile app.

About Me

I am a senior machine learning engineer with expertise in conversational AI, NLP, search, autocomplete, and generative AI. I hold a PhD from Virginia Tech. You can send me any questions or just a "high" via the form below. I would love to set up a call if you'd like to discuss NLP and Gen AI.

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