Shahzad Khan, PhD

Froebel's International High School

University of Cambridge

Syracuse University

Lahore University of Management Sciences

VP Data Science at Levadata

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Leading the data-science team at LevaData focusing on deploying ML/AI at global scale for supply chain risk and opportunity identification in the electronics industry.

LevaData

VP Data Science

Founded Gnowit in 2010, built an awesome team, managed the product development and took it to maturity and self-sufficiency.

Gnowit Inc

Advisor

Advising high potential firms in the InvestOttawa Ignite and Flex pre-accelerator programmes as an Entrepreneur in Residence.

Invest Ottawa

Early Stage Startup Advisor

EdgeworthBox is an early-stage technology company focused on improving the way governments and corporations purchase goods and services.

EdgeworthBox, Inc.

Adviser (Artificial Intelligence)

Responsible for setting research direction, defining the core technologies required for Lytica’s product roadmap, managing the R&D team and fostering university research partnerships.

Current research focus:
-  natural language processing
-  machine learning
-  high scalability data aggregation and normalization from heterogeneous sources
-  automated, semantic and structural approaches to parsing of technical documentation
-  robust, automated repair of noisy web and client-supplied data.

Lytica enables unprecedented levels of cost reduction for many of the world's leading electronics OEM and EMS companies through their revolutionary <a href="http://Freebenchmarking.com">Freebenchmarking.com</a> suite of cost benchmarking tools. Lytica’s mission is to make good companies more competitive by providing the most trusted e-component market intelligence around pricing, security of supply and compliance. Lytica is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Lytica Inc.

Chief Research Officer

Bluwave-ai is optimizing renewable energy usage with Artificial Intelligence on Smart Grid IOT sensors. We are using our expertise in big data, AI, supercomputing, and distributed edge computing to positively have an impact on how our planet uses clean renewable energy sources.

BluWave Inc's mission is to modernize the electric energy deployment with distributed artificial intelligence. We enable large energy savings by applying accelerated computing enabled artificial intelligence to manage loads and distributed clean energy sources in real time. We use Edge Computing and Hyperscale Cloud bases accelerated SaaS to deliver these savings to our distribution utility, enterprise, mining, campus, net zero community and other off grid customers. Our target markets cover the biggest electric producers and distributors in the world down to micro grid renewable energy operators whether in North America and Europe or in the big emerging markets in India, the Middle, East, Africa, China and the rest of South East Asia.

BluWave-ai

Advisor (Artificial Intelligence)

DroneEntry is platform which connects all commercial & hobbyist pilots who are responsible drone pilots. The platform allows drone pilots from around the world to showcase their capabilities on their profiles and get endorsed for their skills and projects. It creates a global opportunity to engage with other drone pilots, share techniques and experiences while gaining insight on regulations. It also gives them a chance to create a reliable and much respectful online presence, in such a sensitive and risk adverse industry. The platform allows organizations/companies to target market about their specialized products/services to the drone pilots. Furthermore, premium access gives them a unique perspective into drone usage, user analytics and versatile data optimization capabilities to understand how their products are being used.

DroneEntry - Social Portfolio Management Platform for Drone Operators

zazuhōm is a mobile solution that helps households effortlessly capture, store and find all their home product warranties, receipts and user manuals, while providing key product ownership insights to retailers, brand manufacturers and financial services companies (<a href="http://zazuhom.com">http://zazuhom.com</a>)

zazuhōm inc.

What is Mediagator's Gnow.it?

Gnow.it is a news reading app powered by Artificial Intelligence that learns your reading interests to bring you the content that truly matters to you. It brings you all your favourite content from across the web in one place that is easy to read and fun to use - it makes the search engine redundant - no more searching!

Gnow.it curates news from a content library spanning thousands of niche categories to find news on the topic you care about, and proactively presents them to you with no effort on your part.

3 Main Features That Set Us Apart:

Uses artificial intelligence to identify news and blog content which are relevant to you
The system improves as you read to recommend articles that match your interests
Uses AI technology to provide summaries of articles to save you time*
Completely spam and fluff-free

Mediagator Inc

Chief Technology Officer

Gnowit provides real-time briefings for government relations, publication relations and market intelligence, extracted from media, regulatory + parliamentary sources, as well as specialized industry publications.

Our artificial intelligence platform is comprehensive in its monitoring, and only notifies you with relevant information. We also support a number of workflows that can help you to disseminate briefings via leading email automation platform (Mailchimp, ConstantContant, getResponse and SendGrid) and publish directly to Wordpress, Shopify, SquareSpace and Wix.

Taught Human Computer Interaction in School of Information Technology.

Carleton University

Visiting Faculty

- Proving data mining and text analytics expertise to the development of a strategic SEM related product.

-  Co-Managed a 2 million dollar consulting contract (Apr '10 - Apr '11) for one of Apption's largest crown-corporation clients.

Apption Software

Consulting Solution Architect

Created a natural language generation (NLG) toolkit to support a non-linear, high-state count, model-driven interactive learning simulation (serious game). This simulation was designed to train middle-managers on interpersonal behavior, management best-practices and cultural sensitivity.

The content author generated almost 20,000 feedback messages (which supported learning) within two days by using this NLG tool.

Designed a user assessment generation module using Hofstede’s cultural analysis (<a href="http://bit.ly/4o2j6t">http://bit.ly/4o2j6t</a>). The assessment provided insightful reports via statistical event analysis of in-game choices.

Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Ottawa, Canada

Consultant

Architected, designed and implemented a Java based enterprise scale multi-blog crawler, search engine and social media monitoring solution. The solution contained a web crawler that intelligently traversed and indexed blogs, with smart prioritisation, multi-threading and information extraction.

If you are interested in trying out the beta, please email me at <a href="mailto:shahzad@whyztech.com">shahzad@whyztech.com</a>

Whyz Technologies Inc.

President

I have designed and implemented an automatic content generation solution in Perl that reduced the game development cycle time by 2 months.

Additionally, I researched and implemented automatic assessment techniques (via machine learning) to identify game-play strategies. These were used to generate pedagogically relevant reports that help the player to improve their skill level. The system was implemented in Perl, Java, XML, DHTML and the GD libraries on Linux.  This technology earned DISTIL the ‘best product’ award at the DevLearn ’08 eLearning conference.

Based on the success of these techniques, I successfully applied for over $500K+ in grants from Ontario Centres of Excellence, Precarn Inc and NSERC strategic fund to implement a natural language generation toolkit for serious games. I am currently working with partners at the Univ of Ottawa to enhance the generated content to simulate personality and emotions in digital persona in serious games.

DISTIL Interactive Ltd

Senior Research Scientist

I reengineered the document acquisition process of leading neuroscience research portal, to eliminate customers data entry effort via UNIX C++ solution that retrieved structured XML from scientific document sourced as PDF.

I managed the development of the ‘Citation Data-Warehouse’ (CDW) for this portal. This employed web crawlers and AI heuristics to harvest authors, publications and citations from the web

I designed an Analytics System which captured user-clicks and employed data warehousing techniques to identify user events. The data was used to visualize custom web and business metrics to ascertain customer satisfaction levels.

While physically present in Canada, I managed the Analytics and CDW implementation for the Swiss client via engineers in Asia. I employed agile methods to overcome significant challenges related to communication, project tracking and time-zone differences to complete the project. This resulted in a successful implementation at a 75% saving in cost.

Frontiers Research Foundation (Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne Spin-off)

I developed a complex, multi-module, content management and social networking web portal. The Debian-based solution was built using the OpenACS package running on the AOLserver web server. The scripts were written in TCL and PL/PGSQL stored procedures and supported persistence via the Postgres RDBMS.

MOJIS Social Networking Ltd

Director Engineering

During my research at Cambridge I investigated sentiment classification (subjectivity analysis). I managed to improve classification accuracy via a novel syntactic analyses of sentences that generated new new features for the statistical machine learning classification systems.

I implemented the complete system using a mix of Java, C++ and UNIX shell scripts. The final system was refactored to run on a CONDOR supercomputing cluster by parallelizing the implemented code.

I was also the teaching assistant for the following courses:
Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Advanced System Topics (Distributed Networks and P2P Systems), Information Retrieval, Computing and the Web (J2EE, XML)

PhD Researcher

I contributed actively to the teaching, course development, research and administrative functions of NUST, which is ranked as the #20 university in Asia (ASIAWEEK 2000)

My research focused on NLP-intensive applications such as information retrieval (search engines), knowledge management, machine translation, word-sense disambiguation, text summarization and the semantic web

I taught the following courses during my tenure at NUST:
Web Technologies I [HTML, Javascript, Perl, PostgreSQL, DHTML, UML], Web Tech II [C#, XML, Web Services, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a>, Crystal Reports], eCommerce, Project Management and Entrepreneurship

National University of Sciences and Technology

Assistant Professor

I designed and implemented the Element Management System (EMS) to automatically configure Telmax’s DSL devices. This effort replaced the existing prototype command line interface with a complete wizard-based point and click solution and removed the need for external drivers, PC based configuration and a serial cable bridges (for configuration). This solution reduced costs, increased robustness of the offering and simplified the product. The solution was designed to be deployed as a DHTML powered web application that interfaced with custom firmware running on Virata RTOS.

Telmax Corp

Applications Development Manager

I Integrated an analytics system to track web traffic on the Carrier/UTC’s corporate Intranet and Internet servers. This system highlighted strong and weak areas of Carrier’s web presence, located errors (such as broken links) and suggested high-traffic areas for further development and increased resource allocation. The solution was implemented via WebTrends with an Oracle backend.

Additionally, I improved internal communication, resource reservation, group-interaction, and content management through a web-based collaboration system which served 170 international corporate locations. The system employed the iPlanet web server and a set of custom Perl scripts for threaded forums.

United Technologies

SoftWeb Corporation

I implemented a strategic system that would enable the United Way of Central NY to serve the community better. Reengineered the grant giving process to focus on the ‘outcomes’ of the funding process (kids off drugs, people with jobs etc) as opposed to the ‘outputs’ (numbers of hours worked, phone calls made etc). I was responsible for managing the analysis, development and technology transfer of the web application that implemented the outcome based reporting system. I led two consulting teams to fulfill the engineering and training tasks

Community and Information Technology Institute

eBusiness Project Manager

I was the lead programmer for the EVA project. The goal of this project was to design, implement and evaluate an autonomous and evolving information retrieval agent that used cutting edge machine learning techniques to recover relevant documents from the web.