Benjamin Fonooni, Phd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Led overall technology leadership and direction, overseeing mobile apps, cloud infrastructure, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision application development
• Facilitated scrum sessions and coordinated sprint planning, retrospective, and demonstrations
• Served as the architect and leader of the research and development team responsible for the iSelfie Test platform
• Led a team of Data Scientists, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision experts in crafting an advanced AI model to detect signature manifestations of COVID-19 on human facial and ocular surfaces with sensitivity and.
• Directed a team of Data Scientists, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision experts in creating a remote vital sign monitoring system, focusing on generating cardiac signals using rPPG
• Designed and optimized data models for two extensive data lakes

London, GB

• Trained and supervised over 200 junior full stack Java developers, testers and data scientists and helped them with developing their technical and interpersonal skills to deliver solutions in complex IT environments
• Conducted technical mock interviews and helped trainees starting careers mainly at the most reputable financial institutions across Canada and United States
• Provided high quality training and tailored offerings to suit specific client needs
• Troubleshot personnel issues to ensure resolution in line with company's values
• Worked with the HR and Recruitment teams to set up a sustainable engineering hiring funnel for junior developers, software testers and data scientist roles
• Taught Data Structures, Algorithms, Java, Java EE, common JEE frameworks including Spring, Spring MVC, Spring AOP, Spring Security, JPA, Hibernate and RESTful application development

Umeå, Västerbotten, SE

• Studied Cognitive Science and Robotics. I was involved in an EU funded project INTRO that was heading for summarizing some of the notable approaches in the area of Learning from Demonstration. My main responsibilities.
• Designed and developed robot learning algorithms based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
• Focused mainly on environment perception and robot's states prediction
• Implemented series of Ant Colony Optimization algorithms to optimize Learning from Demonstration
• Developed Microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring framework, Hibernate and MySQL database
• Worked with large datasets containing robot's sensor and motory data

• Led the strategy, planning, and execution of the technology roadmap & OKR’s
• Led estimating and capacity planning activities
• Provided impactful insights into the company’s strategic direction, which led into 3X revenue generation
• Led the development team of over 20 junior and senior developers, UI/UX experts, QA analyst and responsible for delivering large-scale enterprise solutions
• Managed and contributed to all aspects of software development including functional and technical specifications, design, development and production support
• Designed and implemented over 10 custom enterprise solutions using Java and open source frameworks including Spring, Hibernate and Struts

• Taught the following courses:
• C/C++ Programming
• Core Java and Advanced Java
• Java EE Application Design including Core XML, JSP, JSF, EJB, XML with Java and Web Services
• Java open source tools including Hibernate, Spring and Struts
• Web Designing with HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Led the team of developers responsible for developing two out of nine enterprise solutions for Iran's Smart Fuel System national project using Java EE and open source frameworks
• Optimized data models running on Oracle and tuned high performance algorithms to handle large datasets containing more than 2.5 million transactions daily (~1 billion transactions yearly)
• Designed and developed solutions based on ITIL standards
• Supervised integration of nine individual subsystems
• Collaborated effectively with software developer teams located in Iran and China to perform various software testing
• Developed strong communication skills

We researched, designed and implemented a prediction engine for Forex Market using Data Fusion, Decision Trees and other ML algorithms.

Principal developer of a real estate management system

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Robotics

Visiting Phd Student, Cognitive Robotics