About

Usama Masood is a PhD researcher with cross-domain expertise in Machine Learning and Wireless Networks. He has a track record of innovation and 8+ years of research and industry experience in the design and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools and products, and leading multi-disciplinary teams of data scientists, software engineers and subject matter experts.

Areas of Experience:

  • Machine/Deep Learning Architecture Design & Intelligent Feature Engineering: Transfer Learning, Meta Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Generative Neural Networks, Boosting Methods, Online Learning.
  • Cloud-Native Application Development (DevOps/MLOps/CI/CD): Creating end-to-end data pipelines (ETL, ML, CI/CD), containerizing them using Docker, and orchestrating them using Kubernetes platform.
  • ML-Powered RAN Automation Use-Cases: Traffic (load) forecasting, Anomaly detection, Root cause analysis (diagnosis), User mobility prediction, Modeling relationship between system-level KPIs and network configuration parameters, Network parameters optimization (CCO, MLB, ES etc.).
  • Multi-faceted Performance Analysis: Predictive, Computational, Generalization performance.
  • Handling and fusing different types of Network Data for fueling AI: Configuration Management (CM), Performance Management (PM), Fault Management (FM), Drive Test, Network Topology, Geographical Data.
  • RF Design, Planning, and Optimization using tools such as Atoll.
  • Technical Writing and Presentation: Writing technical reports, invention disclosures, IEEE transactions papers, and delivering presentations to executives as well as subject matter experts (SMEs).

Technical Skills:

Skills: Data Analytics, Optimization, Machine Learning, RF Design, Software Development, Project Management
Programming Languages: Python, MATLAB, C++, SQL, VBS, Bash
Data Science: Kubernetes, Docker, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, scikit-learn, ArcPy, Hadoop
Data Visualization: Tableau, ESRI ArcGIS, Google Earth, MS Visio, Plotly, MATLAB
Software: Git, Linux, LaTeX, MS Visual Studio, Android Studio

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