Vector Institute
Val Andrei Fajardo is an experienced applied machine learning scientist specializing in natural language processing, currently employed at Vector Institute since January 2025. Prior roles include founding software and machine learning engineer at LlamaIndex, principal machine learning engineer at Metaverse Mind Lab, and various leadership positions at integrate.ai, where Val Andrei contributed to advancing machine learning science. Val Andrei’s career began in academia, serving as a teaching assistant and instructor at the University of Waterloo, complemented by mentorship experience at Springboard and a senior data scientist role at Precima. Val Andrei holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Waterloo, a Master’s degree in Statistics from Brock University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics, also from Brock University.
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Vector Institute
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Vector Institute will be a leader in the transformative field of artificial intelligence, excelling in machine and deep learning — an area of scientific, academic, and commercial endeavor that will shape our world over the next generation. We are building on Canada’s outstanding pool of globally recognized AI expertise by training, attracting andretaining more top researchers who want to lead the world in machine learning and deep learning research, while having the flexibility to work on commercial applications with companies or in their own startups.