Afshin Dehghan
Multimodal AI at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAfshin Dehghan is an AI/ML lead with a decade of experience translating cutting-edge research into production systems, currently heading Apple’s Multimodal INTelligence (MINT) group in Cupertino. He has driven multimodal foundation models, agentic AI systems, and large-scale perception tech that power features across Apple products—from FaceID and real-time camera semantic reasoning to 3D perception for Vision Pro. Trained as a PhD computer scientist, Afshin blends deep academic credentials and award-winning research with hands-on startup experience building mobile-friendly vision models and large-scale image and video systems. He excels at bridging bold research and product engineering, often leading cross-disciplinary teams to deliver deployable, privacy-conscious perception and reasoning capabilities. A less obvious strength is his track record of shepherding long-term research (e.g., 3D scene understanding and agentic AI) from early incubation to core platform technologies used company-wide.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of TehranDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (17)
3d8
machine-learning8
data-science7
pytorch7
caffe7
deep-learning7
python7
mobile6
ai6
tensorflow6
gpu6
artificial-intelligence6
jax5
resnet4
ml4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apple/ARKitScenes
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
This repo accompanies the research paper, ARKitScenes - A Diverse Real-World Dataset for 3D Indoor Scene Understanding Using Mobile RGB-D Data and contains the data, scripts to visualize and process assets, and training code described in our paper.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 months
3dmobile
afshindn/Network_Flow_Tracker
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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