M.A.Sc Researcher @ UofT

Mohammadjavad (Mohammad)
Maheronnaghsh

Machine Learning • Deep Learning • Computer Vision • DL Acceleration

About Me

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." — Will Rogers

I am currently a student at the University of Toronto, heavily focused on deep learning acceleration (both inference and training phases). My recent research explores efficient augmented reality systems.

Hobbies & Interests: Cinema, soccer (playing and watching), reading books, psychology, historical & psychological podcasts, and boardgames.
Music: Mehran Modiri and Mohsen Chavoshi.

* TOEFL scores, transcripts, and certifications are available upon request.

Education

M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

Thesis: Efficient Image Predistortion for Augmented Reality Systems

GPA: 3.8/4

B.Sc. in Computing Engineering

Nov 2020 - Jun 2024

Sharif University of Technology

Thesis: Mitigating Spurious Correlation in Classification of Images

GPA: 19/20

Featured Publications

Accepted - MLSys 2026

SHANNONIC: Efficient Entropy-Optimal Compression for ML Workloads

2026

Professional Experience

Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant

University of Toronto

Sep 2024 - Present

Undergrad. Research Assistant

Machine Learning Laboratory (MLL) & CPSLab

May 2023 - Aug 2024

Summer Intern

CISPA Machine Learning Lab (Germany)

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023

ML Intern

Zista Gene Afarin

Jul 2023 - Sep 2023

Undergrad. Teaching Assistant

Sharif University of Technology

Feb 2022 - Jan 2024

Projects

Chromosome Classification

Computer Vision project developed at Zista-Gene Corp.

CVDeep Learning

NLP Chatbot (Mental Health)

Chatomatic/Rasa Telegram-bot with fine-tuned NLP models.

NLPChatBotsRasa

Smart Elevator

Embedded systems project using Arduino.

ArduinoEmbedded Systems

Airline Manager

Database and application management project.

PostgreSQLPythonJava

Yu-Gi-Oh Game

Advanced Programming Project using Java and JavaFX.

JavaJavaFX

Sentiment Analysis

Machine Learning sentiment analysis on text data.

NLPMachine Learning

Skills & Technologies

Languages

PythonRJavaC/C++C#VerilogAssembly (x86, MIPS)

Machine Learning Tools

PyTorchTensorflowScikit-LearnSciPyNumpyPandasPaddleDetection

Other Tools

GitPostgreSQLArduinoRaspberry PiLinuxLatex