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Ali Fouladgar

PhD engineer building AI-driven platforms, scalable cloud systems, and real-time networking apps.

13+ years AI • Cloud • Telecom
50+ ML/AI, Cloud, Networking Projects
10+ Journal Papers
400+ Citations
About

I hold a PhD in Electrical Engineering (NJIT) and have spent my career at the intersection of programmable networks, cloud, and AI. At Tata Communications, I led architecture and data-driven initiatives for global network services.

Today, I'm building Bridgit Social — a real-time networking app that helps professionals connect in person based on context and goals. I'm also exploring agentic AI and RAG systems for recommendations and coaching.

My technical background spans ML/MLOps, cloud architecture (AWS, GCP), network automation, and data engineering. I love connecting systems end-to-end, from low-level infrastructure to high-level AI products.

Projects

Featured work

Bridgit Social

Real-time, in-person networking platform that bridges digital and physical presence. Mobile app helping professionals discover people around them based on context, goals, and timing.

iOS Swift Firebase Google Maps GenAI

AI-Driven Network Diagnostics

Retrieval-augmented assistant on top of network logs, runbooks, and telemetry to accelerate incident triage. Reduced investigation time by surfacing likely root causes in natural language.

RAG LLMs MLOps Python Observability

LLM Research & Experimentation

Hands-on exploration of Large Language Models including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and evaluation techniques. Collection of Jupyter notebooks demonstrating practical LLM applications and best practices.

LLMs Python Jupyter NLP AI Research Prompt Engineering

ONAP Network Orchestration

Contributed to Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) for NFV orchestration and service automation. Led implementation projects following MEF 3.0 standards, achieving MEF certification and industry recognition.

ONAP NFV SDN MEF Network Automation OpenStack
Skills

Technical expertise

From low-level network infrastructure to high-level ML products, I enjoy connecting systems end to end.

AI & Machine Learning

MLOps (Kubeflow, MLflow, SageMaker) LLMs Transformers (Hugging Face) Prompt Engineering Fine-Tuning RAG Vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS) Deep Learning PyTorch, TensorFlow Scikit-learn Pandas NLP

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (Infra services, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SageMaker) GCP (Firebase, Firestore, AI/ML) Kubernetes & Docker Terraform Ansible CI/CD Jenkins GitHub Actions

Data Engineering & Analytics

Spark (PySpark) Hadoop SQL NoSQL Vector Databases Kafka Stream Processing Pandas ETL Pipelines Data Warehousing

Programming, Automation & Integration

Python Java SwiftUI SQL LangChain LangGraph CrewAI Git GitHub GitLab SDN, NFV, ONAP, OpenStack Testing & QA Automation n8n & Zapier

Publications

Research & Publications

Selected publications in information theory, wireless communications, and energy transfer.

Constrained codes for joint energy and information transfer

A Fouladgar, O Simeone, E Erkip

IEEE Transactions on Communications

2014
66 citations

Interactive Joint Transfer of Energy and Information

A Fouladgar, O Simeone

IEEE Transactions on Communications

2013
152 citations

On the Transfer of Information and Energy in Multi-User Systems

A Fouladgar, O Simeone

IEEE Communications Letters

2012
212 citations
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