I am an AI professional with 7+ years of experience spanning startups, global enterprises such as Honda and Bosch, and a top-ranked university. I specialize in Generative AI, including Agentic AI, NLP, RAG, and AI for robotics and autonomous driving, leading end-to-end AI products from strategy to execution. I enjoy turning research into practical, robust systems and guiding teams to deliver measurable impact. I have published in top AI conferences, earned prestigious awards like the Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellowship, and have been invited as a guest speaker at institutions such as Waymo, Fei-Fei Li Vision Lab, and Porsche. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring others, and building safe, scalable AI solutions that bridge academia and industry.

Mohammad-Hossein Bahari

I am an AI professional with 7+ years of experience spanning startups, global enterprises such as Honda and Bosch, and a top-ranked university. I specialize in Generative AI, including Agentic AI, NLP, RAG, and AI for robotics and autonomous driving, leading end-to-end AI products from strategy to execution. I enjoy turning research into practical, robust systems and guiding teams to deliver measurable impact. I have published in top AI conferences, earned prestigious awards like the Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellowship, and have been invited as a guest speaker at institutions such as Waymo, Fei-Fei Li Vision Lab, and Porsche. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring others, and building safe, scalable AI solutions that bridge academia and industry.

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I am an AI professional with 7+ years of experience spanning startups, global enterprises such as Honda and Bosch, and a top-ranked university. I specialize in Generative AI, including Agentic AI, NLP, RAG, and AI for robotics and autonomous driving, leading end-to-end AI products from strategy to execution. I enjoy turning research into practical, robust systems and guiding teams to deliver measurable impact.

I have published in top AI conferences, earned prestigious awards like the Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellowship, and have been invited as a guest speaker at institutions such as Waymo, Fei-Fei Li Vision Lab, and Porsche. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring others, and building safe, scalable AI solutions that bridge academia and industry.

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Experience Level

Language

English
Fluent
French
Intermediate
Persian
Fluent

Work Experience

AI Researcher at VITA Lab, EPFL
October 31, 2024 - July 22, 2025
Led end-to-end projects to enhance AI models’ safety and robustness. Developed foundation models for sequence prediction using LLMs, VLMs, and transformers. Fine-tuned large language models and optimized prompts. Created adversarial attacks and synthetic data to improve AI robustness.
AI Engineer (Internship) at Five AI (Bosch)
December 31, 2022 - July 22, 2025
Developed explainable AI solutions by implementing and analyzing interpretability techniques. Discovered model failures using provided explanations to improve model reliability.
AI Researcher at Honda
October 31, 2024 - July 22, 2025
Developed intention prediction methods to enhance social robot interactions. Designed knowledge-based neural network solutions and created comprehensive safety evaluation protocols.
AI Researcher at Valeo
June 30, 2022 - July 22, 2025
Optimized a sequence prediction model and implemented distributed parallel training on multiple GPUs. Designed graph-based models employing attention mechanisms to improve performance.
Founding AI engineer / Product owner at Omnilex AI
August 1, 2025 - Present
Founded and led AI product development of a modular RAG-based legal AI chatbot on Azure and agentic AI with OpenAI. Served as product owner for the chatbot handling 800 queries per day, including product strategy and user support. Built a systematic evaluation framework for model quality, retrieval performance, and user satisfaction. Improved overall product performance by 50% through architectural and optimization changes.
AI Researcher at VITA Lab, EPFL
September 1, 2018 - October 1, 2024
Led end-to-end research projects focused on AI models’ safety and robustness. Developed robust solutions for the visual navigation of robots in autonomous driving. Improved sequence prediction utilizing LLMs and VLMs.
AI Engineer at Five AI (Bosch)
June 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022
Developed explainable AI solutions. Implemented various interpretability techniques. Discovered model failures using provided explanations.
AI Researcher at Honda
September 1, 2018 - October 1, 2024
Developed intention prediction methods to improve social robot’s interactions. Designed knowledge-based neural network solutions. Developed comprehensive safety evaluation protocols.

Education

PhD at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
September 1, 2018 - February 28, 2024
BSc/MSc at Sharif University of Technology
September 1, 2012 - June 30, 2018
PhD in Computer Science at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
September 1, 2018 - February 1, 2024
BSc/MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
September 1, 2012 - June 1, 2018
PhD in Computer Science at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
September 1, 2018 - February 1, 2024
Electrical and Computer Engineering (BSc/MSc) at Sharif University of Technology
September 1, 2012 - June 1, 2018

Qualifications

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2023
EPFLinnovators program
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2023
Fundamentals of entrepreneurship
January 11, 2030 - July 22, 2025
Foundations of project management
January 11, 2030 - July 22, 2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellowship
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2023
EPFL Innovators program
January 11, 2030 - January 16, 2026
Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellowship
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2023
EPFL Innovators program (Ph.D. fellow)
January 1, 2018 - February 10, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Transportation & Logistics, Computers & Electronics, Manufacturing, Education, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services