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Machine Learning Engineer | Reinforcement Learning Researcher | Process Systems & Control Engineer

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Amir Hamedi

My experience, technical expertise, and selected research in one document.

Professional overview

I am a machine-learning and process-systems engineer working across reinforcement learning, scientific machine learning, and control. I develop data-driven methods for complex process systems in simulation and laboratory settings.

Technical expertise

Reinforcement Learning

Value-based, actor-critic, and policy-optimization methods for discrete and continuous control, including DQN, TD3, TD7, and SAC; behavioral cloning, imitation learning, advanced experience replay, offline-to-online learning, and safe-RL action screening.

Machine Learning

Deep-learning architectures spanning convolutional, recurrent, attention-based, and sequence-modeling methods; time-series modeling, PINNs, generative models, PCA/PLS, autoencoders, clustering, classical machine learning, and LLM applications.

Control & Optimization

Linear and nonlinear control, model predictive control, linear and nonlinear optimization, and metaheuristic optimization for nonlinear process systems.

Software & Platforms

Python, PyTorch, MATLAB/Simulink, Aspen Plus/Dynamics, Pyomo/IPOPT, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Minitab, Git, and LaTeX; laboratory automation and hardware integration.

Experience

Graduate Researcher and PhD Candidate

2022 - Present

McMaster University

Research in deep reinforcement learning, safe reinforcement learning, scientific machine learning, and control for nonlinear process systems across simulation, Aspen Dynamics, and laboratory experimentation.

Teaching Assistant

2023 - 2026

McMaster University

Supported Process Control, Transport Phenomena, and Reactor Design through tutorials, grading, student consultation, and examination support.

Education

PhD Process Systems Engineering

2022 - Expected Jan 2027

McMaster University

Thesis: Data-Driven Control and Fault Detection for Complex Process Systems

MSc Process Design Engineering

2018 - 2021

University of Tehran

Thesis: Data-Driven Modeling and Metaheuristic Optimization of a Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracking Process

BSc Chemical Engineering

2012 - 2017

Iran University of Science and Technology

Thesis: Design of a municipal-waste leachate treatment plant

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