1:1 with Amir: From Foundations to Mastery

Professor Karimi is an award-winning educator and sought-after speaker known for his engaging and impactful teaching in Machine Learning and AI. He is a Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and a faculty affiliate at Toronto’s Vector Institute. He has delivered talks and presentations at MIT, Harvard, ETH Zurich, DeepMind, and Google Brain, and tutorials on Causal Explainable AI (KDD 2023) and Algorithmic Recourse (Toronto ML Summit 2024). With over 15 years of experience at Meta, DeepMind, and Google Brain, Prof. Karimi specializes in translating foundational machine learning concepts into practical applications and providing expert consulting services to startups worldwide. In his very first term teaching, Prof. Karimi received the prestigious Igor Ivkovic Teaching Excellence Award, and he is also among a handful Google PhD Fellowship recipients globally.