Hi, I'm Umar! 👋

I am a researcher and developer in the field of AI/ML, having ample experience working with multimedia data. I have advanced knowledge of Machine Learning and Deep Learning, building from first principles.
Currently, I am based in Toronto, Canada 🍁.

🧠 Expertise & Interests 🌱

• Machine Learning and Deep Learning
• Multimedia Data Processing
• Vision + Language AI (VLMs, LLMs), Generative Modeling (Diffusion), etc.

📚 Education

• University of Toronto: MSc in Applied Computing, major in AI.
• JMI University: Bachelors in Computer Engineering.

💼 Background

• Past ML Research Intern at Samsung AI Center Toronto: Improved smartphone camera technology using AI. Submitted a paper/patent in review (CVPR 2025).

• Academic Research Internships:

  • Ulm University, Germany. Spent two months in-person.
  • ENS-PSL, France.
  • IISc Bangalore, India.
  • IIIT - Allahabad, India.

  Five publications so far, including one in ECCV Workshop 2022, worked with large-scale data (>2.1M), curated and open-sourced synthetic dataset that got >1300 downloads on Kaggle so far.

🤝 Let's Connect

• LinkedIn: Umar Masud
• Email: [um71000][at][gmail.com]

Feel free to explore my repositories and reach out if you have any questions or collaboration ideas!