Muhammad Umar Ali Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Contact uali@bccrc.ca for related inquiries.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Spearheaded development of QA and QC tool with C# WPF Toolkit that integrated downstream machine learning inferences to highlight potential failure points in 3D bioprinted tissue therapeutics
• Optimized 3D bio-printer computer vision streaming by roughly 10% using Linux Gstreamer and TCP/UDP network protocols.
• Encapsulated: hardware abstraction, computer vision, and other services into Docker containers to lower chance of failure.
• Enhanced STM32 messaging scheme for asynchronous and parallel write operations, reducing run time cost

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Taught a coding bootcamp on the basics of programming and object oriented design
• Helped students create a stochastic cell simulation modelling tumor growth
• Enrolled over 90 students total

Remote

• Worked directly under CTO to to review design, test hardware/ software products, and support customers.
• Achieved machine learning model inference time of less than 200ms on ESP32 with low-resource hardware by streamlining C++ digital signal processing steps, thereby reducing runtime cost and improving responsiveness.
• Thoroughly tested and validated production code on IoT devices using PlatformIO unit tests for 90%+ code coverage.

Van

• Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
• Presented research findings from previous work term to conferences (Harvard NCRC, BC Cancer Summit, UBC DERM Skin Day, UBC FoM Showcase)May 2021 - Aug 2021 (Co-op)
• Worked closely with PhD candidates to design generative models on a limited set of clinical data supplied by various clinics
• Utilized adaptive discriminator augmentation algorithm to diminish total training data needed for sophisticated GAN model from 10K to 1000 images while still maintaining overall sophisticated performance
• Delivered scientific presentations to group of clinicians, scientists, and other students on efficacy of generative models in medicine
• Experience using UBC ARC supercomputer clusters in PBS scripting language for rapid model training

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Teaching assistant for summer coding bootcamp where I spearheaded the development of bootcamp curriculum for easy transition between first year and upper-level software engineering courses
• Effectively communicate and coordinate with instructors in order to create weekly lesson plans for teaching object-oriented programming, recursion and basic data structures.
• Maintain, observe, and assess each student's progress through assessments and hold weekly office hours where I helped students individually for better understanding of content material.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Awarded competitive NSERC USRA Award to work under Dr. Ali Bashashati on ovarian cancer and machine learning
• Developed an android application in Flutter that deployed machine learning model to make real-time inferences, store images in NoSQL Firebase cloud storage, and send requests for image stitching algorithm
• Worked with senior machine learning scientist to curate histology slides of ovarian cancer and deploy custom trained deep convolutional neural network on mobile device using TensorFlow and Flutter
• App allows hospital technician to navigate microscope slide, target areas of interest, and digitally reconstruct localized regions for later pathologist review

Langley City, BC

• Expert in working in fast paced environment with other technicians to quickly, effectively, and accurately dispense medication
• Processed prescription using Kroll Rx and WinRX pharmaceutical software while corresponding with other pharmacists and patient family physicians
• Insurance billing for all patients under all types of insurance (MSP/Pharmacare, Blue cross, Green Shield, etc).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Systems Engineering

Supervisor: Dr. Parsin Haji Reza

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Biomedical Engineering

Bioinformatics Stream Dean's Honour List