Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh

Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh

Lead Machine Learning Scientist — UnitedHealth Group / Optum AI @ Optum

About

I am a Principal AI Scientist and Researcher with 15+ years of experience bridging the gap between cutting-edge Generative AI research and enterprise-scale deployment. My core focus is revolutionizing healthcare through applied Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI.Currently, I lead R&D at UnitedHealth Group (Optum AI), spearheading the development of an Agentic AI solution that fully automates the claims and clinical review process. By orchestrating multiple AI agents across document understanding, clinical reasoning, and decision support, we are replacing complex, high-stakes manual workflows at scale.My work spans the full machine learning lifecycle - from novel research and architecture design to production deployment.Career & Academic Highlights:• PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech (GPA 4.0).• 27+ Peer-Reviewed Publications & 6 Patents focusing on LLM-based systems, hallucination mitigation, and medical event prediction.• Academic R&D: Courtesy Faculty at the University of Florida, currently researching in-context learning for suicide event prediction from clinical text.• Track Record of Innovation: Previously built state-of-the-art clinical NLP systems at 3M Health Information Systems (SOAP note generation), alongside senior data science roles at Disney and Home Depot.🎯 Open to : Principal AI Scientist or Principal Research Scientist, AI Engineer, ML Engineer roles in Generative AI/R&D - particularly at the intersection of LLMs and Healthcare. Contract► CORE TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:Generative AI | Large Language Models (LLMs) | Agentic AI | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | LLM Fine-Tuning | Distributed LLM Training (PyTorch FSDP, DeepSpeed) | Diffusion Models | Transformers | Clinical NLP | Hugging Face | Python | PyTorch | LangChain📫 Let’s connect: Feel free to message me here on LinkedIn or at hassanzadeh@sermifyai.com

Country

United States

City

Germantown

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Biomedical Engineering, H2O.ai, Data Analysis, Encoders, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Search Algorithms, Hadoop, Big Data, Search Engine Ranking, Word Embeddings, Apache Spark, Data Science, Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Streaming Media, xAI, SOAP notes, Clinical Documentation, Automatic Text Summarization, Unstructured Data

Experience

Optum

Lead Machine Learning Scientist — UnitedHealth Group / Optum AI

Optum

LinkedIn
2022-7 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Leading two key Generative AI projects focused on processing medical unstructured texts at enterprise scale • Architecting and deploying production-grade LLM pipelines for healthcare applications serving millions of members • Designed and implemented RAG-based systems for medical document understanding, reducing manual review time significantly • Driving research on agentic AI workflows for clinical decision support, resulting in multiple patent filings • Fine-tuning and evaluating open-source LLMs (LLaMA, Mistral) on domain-specific healthcare tasks using distributed training (FSDP, • DeepSpeed) • Filed 3+ patents on mixture-of-experts language modeling, synthetic QA generation, and question resolution techniques • Collaborating cross-functionally with clinical SMEs, engineering teams, and leadership to translate research into deployed products

University of Florida

Courtesy Faculty Appointment

University of Florida

LinkedIn
2023-5 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Florida, United States

• Conducting independent research on prediction of suicide events from unstructured clinical texts using large language models • Pioneered in-context learning approaches for suicide event prediction, achieving state-of-the-art performance on clinical benchmarks • Co-authoring multiple publications on LLM-based clinical NLP with collaborators across institutions • Mentoring graduate students on applied NLP research in healthcare settings

Solventum

Machine Learning Researcher

Solventum

LinkedIn
2020-12 - 2022-7 · 1 yr 8 mos

(Formerly 3M Health Information Systems / MModal) • Designed and implemented transformer-based NLP systems for generating SOAP notes from patient-doctor conversation transcripts • Built a concept-induced AI system that reduced hallucination rates in generated clinical summaries by grounding outputs in verified medical concepts • Improved summary quality by integrating explainability techniques (XAI), enabling clinicians to trust and validate AI-generated notes • Developed efficient context fusion methods for generating holistic summaries from full-length clinical transcripts • Published research at EMNLP Findings and Interspeech on leveraging pretrained models for doctor-patient conversation summarization

The Walt Disney Company

Senior Data Scientist

The Walt Disney Company

LinkedIn
2020-8 - 2020-12 · 5 mos

• Built an end-to-end NLP pipeline for extracting actionable insights from survey data generated by streaming service subscribers • Developed deep learning-based sentiment analysis models to quantify subscriber satisfaction across content categories • Implemented transformer-based extractive summarization to condense thousands of open-ended survey responses into executive-ready reports

The Home Depot

Senior Software Engineer

The Home Depot

LinkedIn
2018-9 - 2019-2 · 6 mos

• Developed DeepClick, a deep NLP ranking model that improved search engine result relevance by leveraging user interaction signals, item descriptions, and search terms • Engineered the full pipeline on Hadoop/Spark infrastructure, integrating RNN-based architectures with word embeddings and Siamese networks • Processed and analyzed large-scale clickstream data to train and evaluate ranking models at production scale

Verizon Connect

Software Engineer

Verizon Connect

LinkedIn
2018-6 - 2018-9 · 4 mos

• Designed and built a deep learning-based recommender system for suggesting shopping destinations to drivers based on driving behavior and personal preferences • Created a novel end-to-end trainable architecture fusing collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation approaches • Deployed on Hadoop/Spark with TensorFlow, processing real-time geolocation and behavioral data

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

LinkedIn

Bioinformatics/ML

2012 - 2019 · 7 yrs
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

LinkedIn

Artificial Intelligence

2008 - 2010 · 2 yrs
University of Tehran

University of Tehran

LinkedIn
2004 - 2008 · 4 yrs

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