A Iftekhar
Software Engineer at Zoox
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolA Iftekhar is a software engineer and computer vision researcher with a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara and eight years of experience building deep learning models for real-world perception tasks. He has combined academic rigor with industry impact through roles at Microsoft’s Responsible AI team—improving safety for large language and multimodal models—and applied perception work at Zoox and Amazon. His research spans human activity and human-object interaction recognition in images and video, and he has a track record of turning research prototypes into production-ready systems. Based in Santa Barbara, he blends experimentation-led research with pragmatic engineering, and often focuses on safety and interpretability aspects that aren’t obvious from model benchmarks alone.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa BarbaraBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (59)
action-recognition10
graph9
activity-recognition9
tensorflow9
python8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
mutual-information7
video-understanding7
numpy7
speech7
interaction6
gpu-acceleration6
neural-network6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ASMIftekhar/VSGNet
Feb 2020 - May 2021
VSGNet:Spatial Attention Network for Detecting Human Object Interactions Using Graph Convolutions.
Contributions:90 commits, 1 PR, 78 pushes in 1 year 2 months
graphhuman-object-interactionaction-recognitionscene-understanding
ASMIftekhar/MY-THING
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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