Vaden Masrani

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Z-Space Vancouver

302-505 Hamilton St

Vancouver, BC V6B 2R1

I am the CEO & Founder of Sophia AI, a technical engineering studio specializing in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Previously I was a Senior Research Scientist at Huawei Technologies Canada, working in the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence. My CV is here.

I completing my Ph.D (thesis) at the University of British Columbia as a member of the Pacific Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (PLAI) lab in 2023. These days, when I’m not at Z-Space, I co-host the Increments podcast, and occasionally write about applied epistemology.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. AAAI
    Task-Agnostic Language Model Watermarking via High Entropy Passthrough Layers
    Vaden Masrani, Mohammad Akbari, David Ming Xuan Yue, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
  2. Thesis
    Advancing Variational Inference via Thermodynamic Integration
    Vaden Masrani
    University of British Columbia, 2023
  3. NeurIPS
    Flexible Diffusion Modeling of Long Videos
    William HarveySaeid NaderipariziVaden Masrani, and 2 more authors
    Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022