Mohammad Sanatkar
CEO Founder at Forum Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammad Sanatkar is a seasoned AI/ML leader and entrepreneur based in San Francisco with a decade of experience turning unstructured data into actionable insights. As CEO and Founder of SelfMachines, he is building a modular no-code workflow platform to train and serve information retrieval pipelines for diverse business needs. Previously, he led deep learning initiatives at eBay as a Staff Deep Learning Scientist, designing scalable generative and discriminative models for ranking and classification on large-scale data. His career spans impactful roles at Waymo and Cruise in perception, computer vision, and sensor fusion, underscoring hands-on expertise in 3D object detection and uncertainty estimation. He earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University and holds master's degrees from Kansas State University and Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, with a strong foundation in Bayesian inference, RL, vision, NLP, and probabilistic modeling. He is actively involved in the startup and investing ecosystem as Founder in Residence at Forum Ventures and a participant in Pear VC's Spring 2025 cohort, reflecting a commitment to scaling AI-first ventures.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyPhD, Electrical and Computer engineering, 4.0, PhD, Electrical and Computer engineering, 4.0 at Duke UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4.0 at Kansas State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Persian, English
Github Skills (16)
natural-language-processing9
python9
machine-learning9
speech-recognition9
nlp9
pytorch9
deep-learning8
transformer8
transformers8
bert8
tensorflow8
jax7
language-model7
language-models7
seq2seq6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rezasanatkar/transformers
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:26 commits in 1 month
rezasanatkar/rbmnn
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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