Esmat Sahak

Esmat Sahak

Esmat Sahak

Founding AI Product Engineer @ Lightfield

Hi, I am Esmat Sahak, currently a Founding AI Product Engineer at Lightfield. I hold both Master of Applied Science (MASc) and Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) degrees in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) from the University of Toronto.

Experience

LightfieldFounding AI Product Engineer

2025 — Now

2025 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Website: https://lightfield.app/

AutodeskMachine Learning Engineer Intern

2024 — 2024

2024 — 2024

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Digital Experience & Customer Empowerment (DXC) Machine Learning Team

RocheData Science Intern

2023 — 2023

2023 — 2023

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

MSAT and Engineering Team (PTT)

University of TorontoStudent Researcher

2022 — 2023

2022 — 2023

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Third Space Research Group

Advisors: Ishtiaque Ahmed, Mohammad Rifat

Thesis: Designing Automatic and Contextual Feedback Systems for Online Hate Speech

University of TorontoStudent Researcher

2021 — 2022

2021 — 2022

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Signal Processing and Oral Communication Lab (SPOClab)

Advisors: Frank Rudzicz, Zining Zhu

Paper: A State-Vector Framework for Dataset Effects (EMNLP 2023)

Education

University of Toronto

Master of Applied Science - MASc

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc