Eidan Erlich

Selected Work

2018 — 26

2026 — Present Multimodal AI

Dream Technologies

Research Engineer, Vision & Graphics — Spearheading Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT) for 3D graphics synthesis at an a16z-funded startup.

2025 — Present Medical Research

University of Toronto — Sunnybrook Research Institute

Research Scientist — Digital Navigation Project for Colon Cancer Screening.

2025 Quantitative Finance

Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets

Quantitative Developer — Developed a risk analytics and pricing model service enabling valuation, simulation, and XVA. Engineered a scalable risk and pricing model execution system (>1M tasks) in Python and C++.

2025 — Present Deep Learning Research

University of Waterloo — Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

Research Assistant — Deep learning models generating Spot Weld cross-sections from time-series sensor data.

2025 Leadership

Hack The North

Finance Director — Leading the finance team for Canada's biggest hackathon with 1000+ hackers and >$500K operating budget.

2024 NLP / Speech

Symphonic Labs

Software & Research Lead — Drove the development of a novel, Transformer-based video lip-reading model, achieving a 15% increase in accuracy. Implemented distributed PyTorch training infrastructure.

2024 Computer Vision / SLAM

Institute of Aircraft Production Technology / Airbus

ML & Computer Vision Intern — Architected a mobile, multi-sensor, vision-based data acquisition system for aircraft manufacturing monitoring. Published two papers at CIRP ICME.

2023 — 2025 Autonomous Racing

MIT-PITT-RW Autonomous Racing

Team Lead / Technical Program Manager — Led a 50-member research team developing a fully autonomous Indy race car in the world's fastest driverless competition.

2023 ML / VFX

Monsters Aliens Robots & Zombies (MARZ)

ML Research Intern — Optimized a production-level CNN and GAN pipeline for high-fidelity lip-syncing in video. Engineered a cloud-based async task queue reducing training time by 45%.

2022 Biomedical

Vitreous Retina Macula Specialists of Toronto

Biomedical Research Intern — Designed 3D printed surgical instruments and reduced manufacturing costs by 90%. Led a cross-functional team of graduate students.

2022 IT / Analytics

ILLUMITI

IT Operations and Optimization Analyst — Automated data analytics using Excel and VBA.

2021 — 2024 Pyrotechnics

Victory Fireworks

Fireworks Display Assistant — Professional fireworks for the largest shows in Canada.

2021 IT Support

Chartwell Retirement Residences

Student IT Support — Provided technical support, including ticket queue management, PC configuration, and hardware repairs.

2017 — 2020 Sports

York Region Soccer Association

Soccer Referee — Head referee for small-sided soccer games.

2018 Camp

Bayview Glen Day Camp

Junior Counselor — Planned, instructed, and oversaw activities. Ensured camper safety.

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