{"id":6,"date":"2015-06-18T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T10:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iscpif.fr\/maziyar\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:37:49","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iscpif.fr\/maziyar\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zcUkfAvoOkptfPXZMWgWnlEObvbfVTpdSA\n          zxIOgQOrsWkYUYkALkuiRGKGNCRPCsaU\"><\/p>\n<div data-generated-suggestion-target=\"urn:li:fsu_profileActionDelegate:-1958258152\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>TL;DR<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"Maziyar_PANAHI\" class=\"showhide_heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Creator of OpenMed | Generative AI Leader in Healthcare | Building Sovereign On-Premise AI | Open Source AI Advocate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Product architect specialized in deploying state\u2011of\u2011the\u2011art Generative AI for regulated healthcare and life\u2011sciences settings, bridging public\u2011research rigor and enterprise production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For over 16 years in public research, primarily at France\u2019s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Maziyar has led large\u2011scale AI\/ML platforms and model releases at the intersection of high\u2011performance computing, big data, and generative AI. He has been a core leader behind John Snow Labs\u2019 Spark NLP ecosystem, which powers a vast share of medical NLP in production (including on AWS SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock). His stance is clear: medical AI must be open, auditable, sovereign, and deployable within a hospital\u2019s own walls. He founded <span class=\"s2\"><b>OpenMed<\/b><\/span> to advance transparent, on\u2011prem\u2011ready medical language models.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Maziyar PANAHI: Full Professional Bio<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Location:<\/b><\/span> Paris, France<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Principal AI Engineer and product architect specializing in bringing state-of-the-art Generative AI to the most demanding healthcare and life sciences environments. For over 14 years in public research, primarily with France&#8217;s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), I have led large-scale projects at the intersection of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. This deep scientific background informs my commercial work, where I led the team behind John Snow Labs&#8217; Spark NLP, the most widely used NLP library in the enterprise, which powers the vast majority of medical AI models on platforms like AWS SageMaker and Bedrock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My work is driven by a core belief: the future of medical AI must be open, auditable, and sovereign. This conviction led me to found OpenMed, an initiative dedicated to creating and sharing transparent, state-of-the-art medical language models. I believe that for AI to be truly trusted in clinical settings, it cannot be a black box. It must be deployable within a hospital&#8217;s own walls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My expertise covers the full stack of medical AI deployment: from training and fine-tuning domain-specific LLMs (100M to 200B+ parameters) to architecting the national-scale, on-premise infrastructure they require. This includes managing billion-row databases on everything from bare-metal servers to hardened Kubernetes clusters. As an Infrastructure Project Manager at the Institute of Complex Systems of Paris (ISCPIF), I continue to manage the complex, high-performance computing environments essential for this pioneering research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My mission is to leverage Europe&#8217;s leading AI to build the default engine for every hospital, pharma giant, and public health agency that requires a secure, sovereign, and powerful medical intelligence platform. I am focused on turning cutting-edge scientific research into robust, compliant, and commercially successful enterprise solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Mission &amp; stance<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Build the default, trustworthy medical intelligence engine for hospitals, pharma, and public\u2011health agencies that require secure and sovereign AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Advance medical AI that is <span class=\"s1\"><b>open, auditable, and deployable on\u2011prem<\/b><\/span>, not a black box.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turn cutting\u2011edge research into robust, compliant, and commercially successful solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Current focus &amp; roles (last ~7 years)<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leads and contributes to John Snow Labs\u2019 <span class=\"s1\"><b>Spark NLP<\/b><\/span> ecosystem and related model releases.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prolific publisher on <span class=\"s1\"><b>Hugging Face<\/b><\/span> with model cards, training configs, reproducibility notes, and evaluation summaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hands\u2011on across <span class=\"s1\"><b>post\u2011training and RL<\/b><\/span> (SFT \u2192 preference \u2192 reward modeling \u2192 <span class=\"s1\"><b>GRPO<\/b><\/span>), evaluation harnesses, and red\u2011teaming.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Provides production\u2011grade artifacts and recipes for <span class=\"s1\"><b>AWS SageMaker<\/b><\/span> and <span class=\"s1\"><b>Amazon Bedrock<\/b><\/span> (incl. BYO Docker), plus tested inference configs for <span class=\"s1\"><b>vLLM<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>TGI<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>SGLang<\/b><\/span>, and <span class=\"s1\"><b>llama.cpp<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maintains curated families of <span class=\"s1\"><b>general\u2011purpose (agentic)<\/b><\/span> and <span class=\"s1\"><b>medical<\/b><\/span> models with consistent APIs and <span class=\"s1\"><b>quantization matrices (2\u20138\u2011bit)<\/b><\/span> for CPU edge, single\u2011GPU rigs, and high\u2011throughput servers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emphasizes \u201ctime\u2011to\u2011useful\u201d: small, well\u2011documented defaults; safe fallbacks; tuning knobs for throughput\/latency, context length, and tool\u2011use reliability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OpenMed (founder): the open\u2011source, clinical\u2011grade alternative to closed, licensed products<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What it is<\/strong><br \/>\nOpenMed creates and shares <strong>transparent, state\u2011of\u2011the\u2011art medical LLMs<\/strong> and biomedical NER models that are <strong>free forever<\/strong> under <strong>Apache\u20112.0<\/strong>, with <strong>reproducible training<\/strong> and <strong>transparent benchmarking<\/strong>. Built to run <strong>on\u2011prem or in your VPC<\/strong>, OpenMed is designed to integrate with hospital IT and regulatory workflows, so teams can ship <strong>HIPAA\u2011aware<\/strong> NLP and decision\u2011support without vendor lock\u2011in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scale &amp; coverage<\/strong><br \/>\nAn expanding catalog of <strong>hundreds of models<\/strong> (475+ and growing) across <strong>13+ biomedical categories, <\/strong>chemicals, diseases, genes\/proteins, species, oncology, anatomy, and more, published on Hugging Face, backed by a Python package and CLI for one\u2011line pipelines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong><br \/>\nClosed, licensed products keep clinical AI behind paywalls and black boxes. OpenMed is the <strong>state\u2011of\u2011the\u2011art open alternative<\/strong>: permissively licensed, auditable, and ready for <strong>sovereign deployment<\/strong> (on\u2011prem\/VPC).<\/p>\n<h3>What OpenMed ships<\/h3>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li><strong>OpenMed NER (SOTA):<\/strong>\u00a0A suite of domain\u2011adapted transformers that achieve <strong>new state\u2011of\u2011the\u2011art<\/strong> on <strong>10\/12 public biomedical NER benchmarks<\/strong>, advancing micro\u2011F1 by up to <strong>+9.7 pp<\/strong> while remaining <strong>efficient to train<\/strong>(LoRA + DAPT) and <strong>easy to deploy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production toolkit: <\/strong><code>openmed<\/code> Python package &amp; CLI with: curated <strong>model registry<\/strong>, one\u2011line <strong>pipeline<\/strong> creation, <strong>advanced NER post\u2011processing<\/strong>, formatting (dict\/JSON\/HTML\/CSV), input validation, and <strong>de\u2011identification <\/strong>helpers for clinical text workflows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deployment recipes:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>AWS SageMaker<\/strong> marketplace packages &amp; JumpStart notebooks for five\u2011minute endpoints; Docker images &amp; guidance for <strong>on\u2011prem\/VPC<\/strong> with observability, encryption, and audit logging.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extensibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Lightweight <strong>LoRA adapters<\/strong>, curated tokenizers, and starter notebooks to extend entity coverage to local ontologies and multilingual records at modest compute cost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Differentiators vs. closed\u2011source<\/h3>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li><strong>Price &amp; access:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Apache\u20112.0<\/strong> licensing; no per\u2011seat\/volume fees; self\u2011host anywhere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Auditability &amp; trust:<\/strong>\u00a0Reproducible training, detailed model cards, transparent datasets; designed to help teams meet emerging regulatory expectations (e.g., EU AI Act) with private deployment and audit trails.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sovereignty:<\/strong>\u00a0On\u2011prem &amp; VPC\u2011first posture; no mandatory call\u2011outs to third\u2011party APIs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance:<\/strong>\u00a0Peer\u2011reviewed results with <strong>SOTA<\/strong> on broad benchmarks; competitive with, and often exceeding, closed, licensed systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Call to action<\/strong><br \/>\nExplore the models and Model Discovery app on Hugging Face, deploy a SageMaker endpoint in minutes, or install the Python package to add clinical\u2011gradeLLM to your pipelines.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Public\u2011research career (CNRS \/ ISC\u2011PIF)<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Institute of Complex Systems \u2013 Paris \u00cele\u2011de\u2011France (ISC\u2011PIF, CNRS),<\/b><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<i>Dec 2015 \u2192 Present<\/i> (lifetime civil servant)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Roles:<\/b><\/span> AI Platform Leader; Principal Research Computing Architect; Infrastructure Project Manager; information\u2011security responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Architected and operated national\u2011scale AI\/ML platforms supporting distributed NLP\/LLM\/GenAI workloads (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, Apache Spark).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Built multi\u2011cluster big\u2011data architecture handling:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 <span class=\"s1\"><b>360B+ records<\/b><\/span> on Hadoop\/Spark (Cloudera)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 <span class=\"s1\"><b>7B+ documents<\/b><\/span> in Elasticsearch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 <span class=\"s1\"><b>16B+ records<\/b><\/span> in MongoDB<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ran <span class=\"s1\"><b>140+ servers<\/b><\/span> (\u22482,000 cores, ~<span class=\"s1\"><b>320 TB<\/b><\/span> storage), including <span class=\"s1\"><b>~280 TB HDFS<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deployed across <span class=\"s1\"><b>AWS<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>Azure<\/b><\/span>, and private clouds (<span class=\"s1\"><b>OpenStack<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>OpenNebula<\/b><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Led the open\u2011source <span class=\"s1\"><b>Multivac<\/b><\/span> platform (multivacplatform.org) and contributed to large data\/intelligence programs (e.g., <span class=\"s1\"><b>Tweetoscope<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>Politoscope<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>Journalist<\/b><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Drove end\u2011to\u2011end infrastructure, security compliance, and DevOps practices for research at scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Selected impact &amp; proof points<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Open LLM Leaderboard (v1 &amp; v2):<\/b><\/span> Top performer from launch through archival; final placements include <span class=\"s1\"><b>#1 and #2<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Quantization at scale:<\/b><\/span> Published <span class=\"s1\"><b>thousands<\/b><\/span> of GGUF\/GPTQ\/AWQ variants with consistent metadata, licensing, checksums\/signatures; tuned for CPU edge, single\u2011GPU, and multi\u2011GPU servers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Adoption:<\/b><\/span> Fine\u2011tuned general\u2011purpose agentic and medical LLMs used across research and industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Production recipes:<\/b><\/span> Reproducible deployments for <span class=\"s1\"><b>Hugging Face<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>AWS SageMaker<\/b><\/span>, and <span class=\"s1\"><b>Amazon Bedrock<\/b><\/span> (including Bedrock\u2011ready artifacts and BYO Docker for SageMaker).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Release hygiene &amp; trust:<\/b><\/span> Benchmark\u2011first model cards; versioned collections for easy checkpoint selection by task, size, and hardware budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Technical expertise<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Healthcare NLP &amp; LLMs<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\">Spark NLP leadership, <\/span><b>medical VLMs<\/b><span class=\"s1\">, and <\/span><b>medical reasoning LLMs<\/b><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Building and evaluating domain\u2011specific models (100M \u2192 200B+ parameters), with emphasis on safety and clinical utility.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Distributed ML &amp; Engineering<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JVM\/Spark production ML; <span class=\"s1\"><b>Databricks<\/b><\/span> integration; large\u2011model training\/fine\u2011tuning; evaluation pipelines; observability for inference.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Inference stacks and optimizations for <span class=\"s1\"><b>vLLM<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>TGI<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>SGLang<\/b><\/span>, <span class=\"s1\"><b>llama.cpp<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Big\u2011data platforms &amp; infrastructure<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Architecture and ops for on\u2011prem + cloud; hardened <span class=\"s1\"><b>Kubernetes<\/b><\/span>; data\u2011at\u2011scale systems; security\/compliance for regulated contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Multi\u2011cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, OpenNebula) and hybrid environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Post\u2011training &amp; RL<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Full post\u2011training pipelines (SFT \u2192 preference \u2192 reward \u2192 <span class=\"s1\"><b>GRPO<\/b><\/span> loops), eval harnesses, and red\u2011teaming.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Publishing best\u2011practice artifacts (configs, cards, metrics) for reproducibility and auditability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Model publishing &amp; tooling<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Standardized metadata, versioning, and signatures; consistent APIs; quantization matrices (1\u20138\u2011bit).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CI\u2019d exporters and packaging for Bedrock\/SageMaker and common inference backends.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Representative releases &amp; projects<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Medical VLM:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0multimodal medical vision\u2011language model release on AWS SageMaker and BedRock.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Medical reasoning LLMs:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0domain\u2011focused models with safety\u2011aware evaluation and red\u2011teaming.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Spark NLP:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0multi\u2011year leadership across releases, how\u2011tos, and enterprise integration patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Quantization families:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0curated GGUF\/GPTQ\/AWQ variants with side\u2011by\u2011side evals and deployment configs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Production recipes:<\/b><\/span> reproducible artifacts and guides for <span class=\"s1\"><b>AWS SageMaker<\/b><\/span> (incl. BYO Docker) and <span class=\"s1\"><b>Amazon Bedrock<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Speaking &amp; community<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Frequent speaker at the <span class=\"s1\"><b>NLP Summit<\/b><\/span> and related industry events.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contributor to the <span class=\"s1\"><b>Databricks<\/b><\/span> blog (e.g., scaling ViTs with Spark NLP).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maintains a large <span class=\"s1\"><b>Hugging Face<\/b><\/span> footprint with public model cards, training configs, and evaluations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Ideal Roles<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Founding GM, Healthcare &amp; Life Sciences<\/strong> (research \u2192 product \u2192 GTM \u2192 P&amp;L)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charter<\/strong><br \/>\nBuild and scale a <strong>sovereign medical AI<\/strong> product line (LLMs\/VLMs) that is open, auditable, and deployable <strong>on\u2011prem or in VPC<\/strong>, with clinical\u2011grade safety and operational reliability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I own<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li><strong>Product<\/strong>: Vision, strategy, and roadmap; packaging (on\u2011prem\/VPC, managed, SDKs); pricing &amp; licensing; design\u2011partner program; solution playbooks per ICP.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Research &amp; Models<\/strong>: Data governance; SFT \u2192 preference \u2192 reward \u2192 <strong>GRPO<\/strong>; evaluation harnesses &amp; red\u2011teaming; quantization matrix (2\u20138\u2011bit); inference stacks (<strong>vLLM<\/strong>, <strong>TGI<\/strong>, <strong>SGLang<\/strong>, <strong>llama.cpp<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engineering &amp; Platform<\/strong>: APIs, SDKs, agents, connectors; deployment targets (hardened <strong>Kubernetes<\/strong>, <strong>Bedrock<\/strong>, <strong>SageMaker<\/strong>, air\u2011gapped); observability, SLOs, rollback &amp; canary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Safety, Security &amp; Compliance<\/strong>: PHI handling and GDPR\/HIPAA alignment; audit trails, model cards, DSRs; responsible\u2011AI gates; security controls toward SOC2\/ISO\u201127001 as needed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GTM<\/strong>: ICP &amp; segmentation (providers, pharma R&amp;D, CROs, payers); messaging &amp; positioning; sales playbooks; field enablement; alliances (AWS, Databricks, EHR vendors); marketplace listings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>P&amp;L &amp; Ops<\/strong>: Budget, hiring, vendor management; OKRs; pricing\/margin; partner programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Proof from OpenMed &amp; CNRS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>OpenMed: reproducible model releases; top leaderboard placements (<strong>#1, #2<\/strong>); <strong>thousands<\/strong> of quantizations; production\u2011ready artifacts for <strong>Bedrock\/SageMaker<\/strong> and common inference backends.<\/li>\n<li>CNRS\/ISC\u2011PIF: architecture &amp; ops for national\u2011scale platforms (<strong>360B+<\/strong> records; <strong>140+<\/strong> servers; multi\u2011cloud), with security and reliability in sensitive environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Head of Generative AI for Healthcare<\/strong> (own models, evals, and safety for clinical use).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Principal Applied ML<\/strong> (NLP\/LLM) with mandate to ship on Spark\/JVM stacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ML Platform\/Infra Lead<\/strong> for regulated, data\u2011intensive orgs (on\u2011prem + cloud, security).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Search keywords<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maziyar Panahi, Spark NLP, OpenMed, medical LLM, medical VLM, GRPO, RLHF, quantization (GGUF\/GPTQ\/AWQ), vLLM, TGI, SGLang, llama.cpp, Bedrock, SageMaker, CNRS, ISC\u2011PIF, Multivac Platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Also, you can find me here:<\/span><\/h4>\n<address>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/openmed.life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenMed<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/huggingface.co\/maziyarPanahi\">HuggingFace<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/maziyarpanahi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linkedin<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MaziyarPanahi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/maziyarpanahi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.fr\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=Uaeq3tMAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/multivacplatform.org\/\">Multivac Platform<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">E: maziyar.panahi (at) iscpif.fr<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Creator of OpenMed | Generative AI Leader in Healthcare | Building Sovereign On-Premise AI | Open Source AI Advocate Product architect specialized in deploying state\u2011of\u2011the\u2011art Generative AI for regulated healthcare and life\u2011sciences settings, bridging public\u2011research rigor and enterprise production. 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