Sanjir has over 7 years of industry experience in Canada with expertise in Machine Learning, Data Science, Business Analytics, and Data Engineering. He is a certified practitioner in DSS Dataiku Generative AI, AWS, and Microsoft Data Analyst Associate, as well as a Fabric Data Engineer (DP-700).
Most recently, he has worked as a Data Scientist (BIS) at Horizon Health Network. Previously, as a Machine Learning Engineer at Areto Labs, he focused on fine-tuning Models, evaluating them to automate the tracking and moderation of harmful content to ensure a safe online environment through advanced spam bot detection. Before this, he was a Data Scientist at Minerva Analytics Inc., where he developed a multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Architecture. Before this, as a Senior Business Analyst at the Bank of Montreal, he managed Capital Market Master Data (CM MDM CRD), Data Governance and AI-driven Metadata Tagging.
Sanjir holds a Master's degree in Data Science & Big Data Analytics from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a major in AI and Computational Intelligence from IIUM. During his master's program, he was a Data Science Researcher at the University of Alberta, collaborated with Alberta Blue Cross, and analyzed healthcare insurance premiums. He began his career as a Data Analyst at Dotlines, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sanjir actively contributes to the University of Alberta community. He has served as an Industry and Technical Career Mentor at the Career Centre and significantly contributed to the Career Mentoring Program within the Mathematical & Statistical Department (MDP), where he also hosted industry networking workshops.