Curriculum Vitae

Mohammed Adnan is a PhD student at the Vector Institute and the University of Calgary, working on efficient deep learning and sparse neural networks.

**Education** - (2023–) PhD, Machine Learning — Vector Institute / University of Calgary - (2019–22) MASc, Electrical & Computer Engineering — University of Waterloo - (2015–19) BTech, Electronics & Electrical Engineering — IIT Guwahati **Selected Fellowships & Awards** - Killam Doctoral Fellowship (2025) - NSERC Doctoral Fellowship (2024) - Borealis AI Global Fellowship (2024) - Digital Research Alliance of Canada Grant (2024) - Vector Scholarship in AI (2019) - Shastri Indo Canadian Research Fellowship (2018) **Academic Service** - Reviewer: ICLR 2021–25, UAI 2022–24, NeurIPS 2022–25, CVPR 2023–25, ICCV 2023–24 - Co-host, Self-Supervised Learning Reading Group, Vector Institute - Student mentorship: Rohan Jain (MASc), Tejas Pote, Nahush Lele (2023 interns)