About Me
Hi! I’m Mohammadreza Rostam (Pouya). I’m an Applied Scientist at Amazon working on LLMs and ML systems for Alexa.
💼 Experience
Amazon — Applied Scientist (2024 - Present)
Building LLM-powered systems for Alexa internationalization and agentic workflows.
Picovoice — Senior Deep Learning Researcher (2022 - 2024)
Led development of Eagle (speaker recognition) and Falcon (diarization) engines. CUDA optimization for picoLLM.
Picovoice — Software Engineer & Embedded Lead (2020 - 2022)
Ported voice AI to MCUs and WebAssembly. Built Shepherd, a no-code platform for embedded voice AI.
UBC — Graduate Research Assistant (2016 - 2020)
Control systems research at the Control Engineering Laboratory.
FanKavan Aral — R&D Engineer (2015 - 2016)
Designed train monitoring and diagnostic systems for railway applications.
🎓 Education
Ph.D. Control Systems — University of British Columbia
Thesis: A Hybrid Gaussian Process Approach to Robust Economic Model Predictive Control
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering — Sharif University of Technology
Thesis: Control of Adaptive Optics Systems Using Transverse Actuators
🔬 Expertise
AI & Machine Learning
LLMs · Fine-tuning · RAG · Prompt Engineering · Agentic Systems · Transformers · GANs · PyTorch · LangChain
Systems & Performance
CUDA · C/C++ · Rust · Embedded Systems · WebAssembly · Low-level Optimization
Cloud & MLOps
AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, OpenSearch) · Docker · Kubernetes