Farshid Varno

Farshid Varno is an experienced AI Research Scientist currently working at Rain since August 2023. Prior to this role, Varno served as a Consultant and Machine Learning Engineer at Varnio Technologies from July 2022 to July 2023, where responsibilities included developing and implementing machine learning solutions and optimizing models. Varno's research background includes a position as an ML Research Scientist at Imagia from March 2019 to March 2022, focusing on Federated Learning and Transfer Learning, leading to state-of-the-art performance and a patent filing. Academic contributions include co-instructing and assisting in machine learning courses at Dalhousie University and earlier roles as a lecturer and research assistant in various educational institutions. Varno holds a PhD in Computer Science from Dalhousie University and a Master of Science in Computer Architecture from the University of Isfahan.