Taher Jafferjee

Taher Jafferjee is a Machine Learning Engineer at Huawei Technologies, where since February 2019, significant contributions have been made in deep reinforcement learning for autonomous driving, culminating in the development of a novel neural network architecture that improved performance by up to 30% on OpenAI Gym. Prior experience includes serving as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, focusing on machine learning algorithms and co-authoring a publication for NeurIPS 2019. Additionally, Taher co-founded Highcube Inc., crafting strategies to optimize vehicle utilization in the fleet telematics sector, and worked as a Business Development Specialist at Natural Food Exports, successfully negotiating contracts worth $1.9 million in West Africa. Educational background includes a Master of Science in Statistical Machine Learning from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Toronto.