# Levent Özbek > Principal Architect Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Profile: https://flows.cv/levent A Machine Learning Engineer with a total of 8 years of industry, academic and hands-on experience in architecting and deploying ML systems. Experienced in classifcal Machine Learning/Data Science, Deep Learning, and Quantum computing (including Quantum ML). Big industrial footprint in bringing LLMs and Diffusion models to production. A pioneer of AI in Visual Effects and Entertainment. Was part of Canada's first ever research team that trained and inferenced an LLM on a Quantum computer. Implemented Diffusion models for CGI generation in film. Deployed a custom LLM for screenwriting.. Used LLMs for knowledge graph generation in the Quantitative world. ## Work Experience ### Research Scientist @ Creature Algorithm Jan 2025 – Present ### Machine Learning Engineer @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 Built & deployed Torchlaunch, which is a Pytorch wrapper that eliminates boilerplate and makes distributed training easier for researchers. Was part of the founding team behind Amii’s Vulcan clusters, as part of the PAICE initiative. Wrote the first Slurm config file for the Vulcan clusters. Worked on implementing a smart resource allocation system for Slurm job submissions. Created ML training materials for researchers and residents ### Founding Machine Learning Engineer - Forward Deployed @ Adora Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Built & deployed custom image generation, inpainting and outpainting models for ad creatives Built a RHLF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) router to route prompts to appropriate model, LoRA and config parameter settings. ### Quantum Research Resident (Quantum Optimization) @ Creed&Bear Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Researched the leverage Quantum computing & photonics offer in optimization of energy distribution. Built a nonreciprocal quantum battery simulator using Qiskit & Pennylane. Developed a Monte Carlo Quantum circuit. ### Lead Research Engineer (Generative AI) @ Crafty Apes Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 First person to bring generative AI to the visual effects industry. Built & deployed a diffusion based CGI asset generator. Built & deployed an LLM that acts as a screenwriting assistant tool using a RAG pipeline using vector embeddings and a FAISS index to handle fast retrieval, which was then hooked into the generation step with a lightweight retriever-generator setup ### Machine Learning Quantitative Research Scientist @ Borsa İstanbul Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Boosted alpha generation and portfolio sharpe ratio Reduced model training time by 30% Improved execution efficiency Identified and monetized latent market opportunities Achieved 80% improvement in hit rate Increased production system reliability ### Lead Applied Scientist @ Netflix Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Lead the ML team in this newly acquired Visual Effects studio, working with the data acquisition team. Built & deployed a GAN to remove motion blur from 1.5 million images. Built & deployed an instance segmentation UNet model to parse human body parts & clothing. Adapted a NeRF model to create short videos from a limited number of image stills. ### Quantum Machine Learning Research intern @ IBM Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Collaborated with the quantum team to optimize LLM training and inference on a quantum computer. Built a single-head attention mechanism using a series of quantum circuits. Tech stack includes Python, Qiskit. ### Machine Learning Engineer intern @ Stream Hatchet Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Built a synthetic dataset of logos in livestreams using the Twitch API. Built a custom augmentation pipeline for logos being placed on screenshots. Trained a YOLOv4 on this synthetic dataset. Reached a mean average precision of 97.2% ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Artificial Intelligence University of Leeds ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Goldsmiths, University of London ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/levoz - GitHub: https://github.com/levoz92 --- Source: https://flows.cv/levent JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/levent/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-16