I’m Mahmoud Gamal Salem, an AI/ML engineer and researcher with a track record of building scalable language models and practical AI systems across finance, healthcare, and multilingual applications. I’m passionate about translating research into real-world impact, collaborating across teams, and continually improving model calibration, efficiency, and deployment for robust, responsible AI.

Mahmoud Gamal Salem

I’m Mahmoud Gamal Salem, an AI/ML engineer and researcher with a track record of building scalable language models and practical AI systems across finance, healthcare, and multilingual applications. I’m passionate about translating research into real-world impact, collaborating across teams, and continually improving model calibration, efficiency, and deployment for robust, responsible AI.

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I’m Mahmoud Gamal Salem, an AI/ML engineer and researcher with a track record of building scalable language models and practical AI systems across finance, healthcare, and multilingual applications.

I’m passionate about translating research into real-world impact, collaborating across teams, and continually improving model calibration, efficiency, and deployment for robust, responsible AI.

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Experience Level

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

AI/ML Engineer at Google
December 1, 2024 - Present
Developed ML systems to enhance real-world financial crime and money laundering detection workflows using LLMs and Agentic AI, driving measurable impact on fraud prevention. Led on-device audio generation to synthesize diverse cross-lingual data, enabling efficient adaptation and multilingual capabilities for on-device deployment.
Research Scientist at Cerebras Systems
December 1, 2024 - October 15, 2025
Developed and maintained end-to-end ML pipelines for large language models and foundational models supporting multilingual and multimodal applications. Led research on domain-specific biomedical LLMs (MediSwift) using 75% weight sparsity during pre-training on Cerebras CS-2 hardware, achieving 22.5x training efficiency and state-of-the-art results on PubMedQA and biomedical VQA. Worked on training Cerebras-LLaVA, a foundation vision-language model, on Cerebras hardware to advance multimodal understanding.
AI Research Intern at Google MTV
March 1, 2023 - October 15, 2025
Optimized language models using non-autoregressive generation and studied the effects of large-scale pretraining for non-autoregressive language generation. Published UT5: Pre-training non-autoregressive T5 with unrolled denoising.
Graduate Student Researcher at Vector Institute
March 1, 2023 - October 15, 2025
Supervisor: Prof. Graham Taylor. Worked on improving model calibration in computer vision problems under long-tailed distribution settings.
AI Research Intern at Borealis AI
February 1, 2022 - October 15, 2025
Modeling uncertainty using selective nets for classification and regression problems. Published Gumbel-Softmax Selective Networks at NeurIPS 2022 workshop.
AI Research Intern at Samsung AI Center Toronto
September 1, 2021 - October 15, 2025
Applied knowledge distillation in an unsupervised framework to leverage unlabeled and unpaired data across modalities. Worked on compressing multimodal transformers for vision and NLP using knowledge distillation.
AI Research Engineer at Navinfo Europe
August 1, 2020 - October 15, 2025
Explored adversarial robustness in semantic segmentation and object detection within multi-modal learning to improve generalization. Implemented network compression and distillation to meet real-time requirements (70% compression) and worked on real-time multi-object tracking on hardware (C++ & TensorFlow).
AI Research Intern at Valeo
August 1, 2018 - October 15, 2025
Optimized data annotation processes by 80% with pre-annotations; performed scene understanding using Camera/LiDAR fusion; researched and implemented state-of-the-art perception modules for autonomous driving (object detection, segmentation, tracking) and behavioral cloning in driving simulations with multi-task learning.

Education

MASc in Engineering, Collaborative Specialization in Artificial Intelligence at Vector Institute & University of Guelph
September 1, 2020 - July 1, 2023
BA in Computer Engineering at Cairo University
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2018

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services