2026
Preprint
Coverage matters: MarginMerge for compressing multi-vector visual document retrievers
arXiv:2608.02969
VANCOUVER, CANADA
Aria Salari_
AI Scientist / Research Engineer
Versed in language models, information retrieval, computer vision, and neural graphics.
RESEARCH & INDUSTRY
01 / ABOUT
About
I’m a Machine Learning Research Engineer based in Vancouver, with nearly five years of professional experience.
At Global Relay, I develop financial AI systems, focusing on knowledge distillation, quantization, and scalable inference. Previously at Huawei, I led neural texture compression and built segmentation and real-time AI rendering pipelines.
My research areas include LLMs, decision models, multi-modal embedding and retrieval, computer vision, and neural graphics. I hold an M.A.Sc. from the University of British Columbia.
02 / RESEARCH
Publications
2026
Workshop paper
Beyond Imitation: A Resource Adaptive Embedder that Outperforms its 14× Larger Teacher on Financial Retrieval
ICML 2026 Workshop on Resource-Adaptive Foundation Model Inference
2025
2023
Conference paper
Fast-MSX: Fast Multiple Scattering Approximation
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Conference Papers, 1–9
2022
2021
Conference paper
3DCADFusion: Tracking and 3D reconstruction of dynamic objects without external motion information
2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
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Thesis
Full 3D model reconstruction via object motion tracking without external information: a deep learning-based approach
University of British Columbia
03 / EXPERIENCE
Experience
2025 — PRESENT
Global RelayApplied Scientist
Large language models (LLMs), decision models, and efficient embedding models for financial AI.
2022 — 2025
HuaweiSenior AI Engineer
Neural graphics, computer vision, and optimized inference for real-time rendering.
2022
Ladybug RoboticsComputer Vision Scientist
Instance segmentation, synthetic data, and perception for robotics.
2019 — 2021
University of British ColumbiaMaster of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.)
Graduate research in 3D reconstruction through object motion tracking.
04 / CONTACT
Get in touch
For research, engineering roles, or project inquiries.
aria.salari@hotmail.com ↗