Parinaz Sobhani

Parinaz Sobhani is the Director of Machine Learning on the Georgian Impact team and is responsible for leading the development of cutting-edge machine learning solutions for growth-stage startup companies.. Parinaz holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa with a research focus on solving opinion mining problems using natural language processing and deep neural networks techniques. She has more than 10 years of experience in developing and designing new models and algorithms for various artificial intelligence tasks. Prior to joining Georgian Partners, Parinaz worked at Microsoft Research where she developed end-to-end neural machine translation models. She has also worked for the National Research Council of Canada, where she designed and developed deep neural network models for natural language understanding and sentiment analysis.