# Reza Amini Gougeh > Reza Amini Gougeh builds AI products in Montréal. Health AI, RAG pipelines, voice AI, and deep learning in production. Founded a startup and sold it. I'm Reza Amini Gougeh. I take AI ideas and turn them into things people actually use: a voice assistant a patient can talk to, a pipeline that catches Parkinson's in a recording, a search engine that cites its sources instead of making them up. This file is a machine-readable summary of https://magnumical.ca/, generated from the same content the site renders. ## Facts - **Who**: Reza Amini Gougeh, an AI and machine learning engineer. - **What I build**: Retrieval pipelines that cite their sources, voice assistants people talk to, and deep learning models that run in production rather than in a notebook. - **Based in**: Montréal, Québec, Canada. I have also worked in Ottawa and in Markham, Ontario, and several roles have been remote. - **Shipped**: A virtual companion for patients at Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital, Parkinson's detection models in production at Amplifier Health, federated learning decision support for the DREAM BIG consortium of 10+ institutions, and a full-stack AI product with voice and a citation engine that I built alone and then sold. - **Worked at**: Juztina LLC, Amplifier Health, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal at the Jewish General Hospital and the Lady Davis Institute, Huawei Technologies, and UQO with Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital. - **Studied**: MSc in telecommunication at INRS, University of Quebec, on motor imagery brain-computer interfaces and virtual reality. BSc in biomedical engineering at the University of Tabriz. - **Research**: Peer-reviewed papers on virtual reality, multisensory experience, brain-computer interfaces, and IoT health sensing, in Sensors, Frontiers, QoMEX, and IEEE MetroXRAINE. - **Languages**: English, Persian, Azerbaijani, and French. I write on this site in English and Persian. - **Writing**: 36 posts going back to 2018, 25 in English and 11 in Persian, on model architectures, hackathons, and the things I got wrong. - **Find me**: GitHub as magnumical, LinkedIn as rezaag, plus Google Scholar and ResearchGate. ## Pages - [Home](https://magnumical.ca/): who Reza Amini Gougeh is, the work, the projects, the papers. - [About](https://magnumical.ca/about): the longer version, with the degrees and the history. - [Projects](https://magnumical.ca/projects): things built, research and side builds alike. - [Writing](https://magnumical.ca/blog): every post, English and Persian. - [Topics](https://magnumical.ca/topics): the subjects the writing keeps returning to. - [RSS feed](https://magnumical.ca/feed.xml): the posts as a feed. ## Experience - **Founder, Building something new in legal tech** (Feb 2026 – Present, Montréal / Remote): Early-stage work on an AI product for legal teams. Too soon to say much publicly. Same pattern as last time: build the thing, put it in front of people, keep what works. - **AI Lead, Juztina LLC** (Dec 2025 – Present, Remote): Built the AI pipelines and data infrastructure behind the platform, and tuned LLM performance in production. The AI features cut churn by 10% and lifted feature adoption by 25%. Deployed on Azure and AWS EC2. - **Founder & Applied AI Engineer, Stealth AI Startup** (Oct 2025 – Feb 2026, Montréal / Remote): Shipped a full-stack AI product on my own: web platform, voice AI, audio features, plus RAG pipelines and a citation engine over a large document corpus. Made every technical call, then sold the company and the technology behind it. - **AI Engineer, Amplifier Health** (Feb 2025 – Oct 2025, Remote): Built the data pipelines and AI infrastructure, and put deep learning models into production for medical use, including Parkinson's detection. Ran the stack on GCP Cloud Run and AWS EC2. - **Lead Machine Learning Engineer, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal / Jewish General Hospital** (2024 – 2025, Montréal, QC): Led the AI work for precision medicine in the mental health department at the Lady Davis Institute. Took models from research question to something clinicians could actually use. - **HCI Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies** (2023 – 2024, Markham, ON): Built AI and IoT features for phones, homes, and cars, and cut system latency by 20%. Prototyped ideas, demoed them, and contributed to patents. - **Full-Stack Developer & AI Specialist, UQO / Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital** (Feb 2023 – Apr 2023, Ottawa, ON): Built a virtual companion for patients in Unity, running on the ChatGPT API. Improved speech recognition and text-to-speech, and engagement went up 55%. - **Machine Learning Engineer, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal / Jewish General Hospital** (2021 – 2023, Montréal, QC): Worked on DREAM BIG, a consortium of 10+ institutions studying how genes, prenatal adversity, and early childhood environment shape children's wellbeing. Built federated-learning decision support systems and hardened the models to keep sensitive data safe. ## Education - **MSc, Telecommunication**, INRS, University of Quebec (2021 – 2022). Thesis: Enhancing motor imagery-based brain-computer interface efficacy using multisensory virtual reality training. - **BSc, Biomedical Engineering**, University of Tabriz (2016 – 2020). Where the signal processing and medical side of my work started. ## Awards - Outstanding Team Award, Huawei Canadian Research Centre - MEITA, McGill University - Graduate Excellence Fellowship, McGill University - International Student Tuition Exemption, University of Quebec - 1st place, Popular Vote, and Best SSVEP Game, BCI Game Jam ## Skills - **Machine learning**: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, SHAP, LIME - **LLMs and RAG**: RAG design, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Retell.ai voice AI - **Data and storage**: PostgreSQL, Supabase, Milvus, Qdrant, pgvector - **Shipping and ops**: Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure, CI, MLflow, DVC, Weights & Biases - **Product surface**: FastAPI, Flask, Django, Streamlit, Stripe, Unity ## Projects Some were research, some were weekend builds, some turned into products. All of them ran. - **Quick Talk** (2023, GPT-4, RAG, Monitoring): A conversational companion built on GPT-4 with retrieval so it answers from real documents. Wired up to Grafana so I could watch it behave in production. - **Keira** (2023, Voice AI, Health, Encryption): An AI companion for dementia patients at Bruyère, with ElevenLabs voice and end-to-end encryption. Built for people who need patience more than speed. - **[ImmerseGuard](https://magnumical.ca/blog/immerseguard-bridging-immersion-and-environmental-awareness)** (2024, VR, Safety, HCI): VR is great until you walk into a wall. This one keeps you inside the experience while still telling you what's happening in the room. - **[SmartBib](https://magnumical.ca/p/extract-relevant-papers)** (2024, NLP, Research tools, Python): Point it at a BibTeX file with thousands of papers and it hands back the ones that actually matter to your topic. Built while writing a literature review. - **[McGillian GreenQuest](https://magnumical.ca/p/greenquest)** (2024, LLM, Assistant, Sustainability): An assistant that answers real questions about sustainability on the McGill campus: what to recycle, how to save energy, how to get around. - **[Fill blanks](https://magnumical.ca/p/fillblanks)** (2024, LLM, Automation, Forms): Give it a template with gaps and it asks you the questions needed to fill them. Form filling without the form. - **[Chit Chat Charm](https://magnumical.ca/blog/chit-chat-charm)** (2023, NLP, Voice, Avatars): An AI conversation you can see and hear, not just read. Text, voice, and a face, put together into one experience. - **[MuSAE Games](https://magnumical.ca/blog/bci-game-jam-2021-musae-games)** (2021, BCI, EEG, Games): A multiplayer game for disabled kids, controlled entirely by brain signals using SSVEP. Won the BCI Game Jam overall, plus the popular vote and best SSVEP game. - **[COVID-19 chest X-ray classifier](https://magnumical.ca/blog/an-online-automatic-corona-diagnose-system-based-on-chest-x-ray-images)** (2020, Deep learning, Medical imaging, Robustness): An online tool that reads a chest X-ray and flags likely COVID cases. Built early in the pandemic, then tested against adversarial attacks to see how fragile it really was. ## Publications A systematic review, a multisensory study, an instrumented headset, and the sound-detection work behind ImmerseGuard. - [Systematic Review of IoT-Based Solutions for User Tracking: Towards Smarter Lifestyle, Wellness and Health Management](https://doi.org/10.3390/s24185939). Sensors, 2024. - [Optimizing Auditory Immersion Safety on Edge Devices: An On-Device Sound Event Detection System](https://doi.org/10.21437/odyssey.2024-32). Odyssey, 2024. - [Multisensory Immersive Experiences: A Pilot Study on Subjective and Instrumental Human Influential Factors Assessment](https://doi.org/10.1109/qomex55416.2022.9900907). QoMEX, 2022. - [Towards instrumental quality assessment of multisensory immersive experiences using a biosensor-equipped head-mounted display](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41233-023-00062-7). Quality and User Experience, 2023. ## Profiles If you're building something in AI and want another pair of hands on it, or you just want to talk about a problem, reach out on LinkedIn or GitHub. I answer. - [GitHub](https://github.com/magnumical) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rezaag) - [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XDYSTfkAAAAJ&hl=en) - [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Reza-Amini-Gougeh) ## Writing in English (25 posts) - [Using HuggingFace without sharing your code!](https://magnumical.ca/blog/using-huggingface-without-sharing-your-code) (2024-07-16): In short: you can run a Python project on HuggingFace Spaces while the source stays in a… - [ImmerseGuard: Bridging Immersion and Environmental Awareness](https://magnumical.ca/blog/immerseguard-bridging-immersion-and-environmental-awareness) (2024-05-08): In short: ImmerseGuard is a phone app that listens through your noise-cancelling headphones… - [Chit Chat Charm ^__^](https://magnumical.ca/blog/chit-chat-charm) (2023-10-27): In short: Chit Chat Charm is an AI conversation app with a face and a voice, not just a text… - [What is the Google Project Management Professional Certificate program?](https://magnumical.ca/blog/what-is-the-google-project-management-professional-certificate-program) (2023-04-22): In short: I finished the Google Project Management Professional Certificate. Here is what the… - [Attending to Scientist2Entrepreneur (S2E) Program! Finding my way into the world of startups!](https://magnumical.ca/blog/attending-to-scientist2entrepreneur-s2e-program-finding-my-way-into-the-world-of-startups) (2023-01-27): In short: I spent a few months hunting for gaps where health, VR and machine learning meet… - [TeTrA: Jump to speech controlled VR env](https://magnumical.ca/blog/tetra-jump-to-speech-controlled-vr-env) (2022-03-19): In short: I built a Windows test game you control entirely by talking to it. Say "show me some… - [The Oranges: A multi-sensory Experience](https://magnumical.ca/blog/oranges) (2022-02-27): In short: a multi-sensory VR study with smell and touch feedback, where participants answer… - [BCIGameJam'21! MuSAE Games :) A Winner!](https://magnumical.ca/blog/bci-game-jam-2021-musae-games) (2022-02-13): In short: Marilia, Olivier and I built a brain-controlled co-op game for the 2021 BCI Game… - [Coping with life after immigration :)](https://magnumical.ca/blog/coping-with-life-after-migration) (2021-09-02): In short: five months into moving to Montreal as an international student, here is what… - [New Preprint: How Adversarial attacks affect Deep Neural Networks Detecting COVID-19?](https://magnumical.ca/blog/new-preprint-how-adversarial-attacks-affect-deep-neural-networks-detecting-covid-19) (2021-08-03): In short: I took five networks that classify COVID-19 chest X-rays and attacked them four… - [My Experience in Hospital!](https://magnumical.ca/blog/my-experience-in-hospital) (2021-05-03): In short: in April 2020 I went into Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ardabil to build a machine… - [WordUp! Pro Version Experience!](https://magnumical.ca/blog/wordupp) (2020-11-17): In short: I have been using WordUp to learn vocabulary for more than six months, and I bought… - [VR based Rehabilitation platform for Dementia](https://magnumical.ca/blog/vr-based-rehabilitation-platform-for-dementia) (2020-08-24): In short: I built a VR environment for people living with dementia and put the first build on… - [Graph Neural Networks- Architectures review!](https://magnumical.ca/blog/graph-neural-networks-architectures-review) (2020-07-06): In short: a walk through the graph neural networks I found most useful. GCN, DeepWalk and… - [A GUI for DIY Syringe pump](https://magnumical.ca/blog/a-gui-for-diy-syringe-pump) (2020-06-28): In short: my final-semester group set out to build a syringe pump out of an Arduino. COVID-19… - [An Online Automatic Corona Diagnose System Based on Chest X-ray Images](https://magnumical.ca/blog/an-online-automatic-corona-diagnose-system-based-on-chest-x-ray-images) (2020-05-30): In short: I trained four networks on chest X-rays to detect COVID-19, picked the best one, and… - [Online COVID-19 detector based on CXR](https://magnumical.ca/blog/online-covid-19-detector-based-on-cxr) (2020-04-17): In short: the online COVID-19 detector is live. Upload a chest X-ray, get back lung… - [Biological Signal Processing: ML Approach- E01: Breast Cancer Detection](https://magnumical.ca/blog/biological-signal-processing-ml-approach-e01-breast-cancer-detection) (2020-03-09): In short: episode one of a tutorial series on analysing biological signals with Python and… - [COVID-19 Detection with ML and CXR | تشخیص کرونا توسط یادگیری ماشین و CXR](https://magnumical.ca/blog/covid-19-detection-with-ml-and-cxr-cxr) (2020-03-02): In short: when Iran ran short of COVID-19 test kits, I built a demo that looks at a chest… - [New Publication: Medical Image Enhancement and Deblurring](https://magnumical.ca/blog/new-publication-medical-image-enhancement-and-deblurring) (2019-12-13): In short: a paper on deblurring medical images, published at the NUSYS'19 conference . It… - [New Publication: An Automatic Driver Assistant based on Intention Detecting Using EEG Signal](https://magnumical.ca/blog/new-publication-an-automatic-driver-assistant-based-on-intention-detecting-using-eeg-signal) (2019-12-13): In short: a driver assistant that reads motor intention straight off the scalp. Sixteen… - [Open-BCI: First touch](https://magnumical.ca/blog/open-bci-first-touch) (2019-09-08): In short: our OpenBCI kit arrived and we put it on a head the same week. Here is how it… - [Neural Networks- Review](https://magnumical.ca/blog/neural-networks-review) (2018-09-22): In short: notes I took while reviewing the basics of neural networks. Mostly quotes worth… - [Genomic signal processing- An introduction](https://magnumical.ca/blog/genomic-signal-processing-an-introduction) (2018-09-17): In short: after a biophysics class I went looking for work on programming biomolecules and… - [Wearable ECG- Implementation](https://magnumical.ca/blog/wearable-ecg-implementation) (2018-09-17): In short: I built a working ECG recorder out of an AD8232 module, an Arduino, three electrodes… ## Writing in Persian (11 posts) - [BCIپردازش تصورحرکتی + راه اندازی آردوینو](https://magnumical.ca/blog/bci) (2018-09-12): خلاصه: کد متلب برای پردازش سیگنال مغزی (EEG) از داده‌های مسابقه BCI، با فیلترهای فضایی (CSP)،… - [متلب و سیگنالها و سیستم ها](https://magnumical.ca/blog/post-2374) (2018-07-01): خلاصه: کدهای متلب درس سیگنال‌ها و سیستم‌ها، در شش سری: رسم و پخش صدای سیگنال، کار با… - [Tower Of Hanoi | برج هانوی | زبان C](https://magnumical.ca/blog/tower-of-hanoi-c) (2018-06-03): ترم اول برای درس برنامه نویسی، پروژه پایان‌ترمم ارائه برج‌های هانوی به شیوه گرافیکی و تصویری… - [الکترومایوگرافی|مقدمه ای بر مهندسی پزشکی](https://magnumical.ca/blog/post-111) (2018-05-29): خلاصه: سیگنال EMG از عضله ثبت می‌شود. اینجا مداری برای گرفتن این سیگنال معرفی شده، به‌همراه کد… - [رمز سزار|متلب](https://magnumical.ca/blog/post-105) (2018-05-29): یکی از روش های ساده برای رمز گذاشتن روی جملات، رمز سزار هست. که برای درس جبر خطی توی محیط متلب… - [محاسبات عددی با پایتون](https://magnumical.ca/blog/post-93) (2018-05-29): خلاصه: کدهای پایتون درس محاسبات عددی: دوبخشی، نیوتن، نقطه ثابت، درون‌یابی لاگرانژ، و… - [اپ آشنایی با رشته مهندسی پزشکی دانشگاه تبریز](https://magnumical.ca/blog/post-78) (2018-05-29): برای ورودی های 96 اپی رو طراحی کردم تا بیشتر با فضای دانشگاه و استاد های گروه مهندسی پزشکی… - [ماهنامه بیوتک| شهریور 1396 |سرطان و میدان های الکتریکی](https://magnumical.ca/blog/1396) (2018-05-28): این ماه مجله بیوتک هم منتشر شد که یکی از مقالاتش بعنوان «سرطان و میدان‌های الکتریکی» رو من… - [اضافه کردن EEGLab به متلب و کار با آن](https://magnumical.ca/blog/eeglab) (2018-05-28): خلاصه: نصب تولباکس EEGLab روی متلب در سه قدم، و بعد باز کردن دیتاست و رسم آن از منوی plot… - [معرفی و دانلود دیتابیس ECG و EEG](https://magnumical.ca/blog/ecg-eeg) (2018-05-28): چند وبسایت برای دانلود دیتابیس‌های ECG و EEG: physionet.org شامل انواع و اقسام دیتا ها از ECG… - [تمرینات درس برنامه نویسی!](https://magnumical.ca/blog/post-21) (2018-05-28): خلاصه: چند سوال مهم برنامه‌نویسی C که توی کلاس حل تمرین حل کردیم. اول ده خط اشتباه که باید… ## Full text - [llms-full.txt](https://magnumical.ca/llms-full.txt): this file plus the complete text of all 36 posts.