Ali Athar
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Athar is an applied scientist with a PhD in computer vision from RWTH Aachen and about a decade of experience applying research to real-world perception problems. He specializes in object tracking and segmentation from monocular video, with additional industry experience in 3D indoor mapping and robotic motion planning. Ali has moved between research and production roles at institutions and companies including RWTH, Waabi, ByteDance, and now Amazon, bringing methods from his thesis on video segmentation into deployed systems. He codes across C++ and Python and has strong hands-on experience with mapping, perception stacks, and deep learning toolkits. Based in Berlin, he combines rigorous academic training (Magna cum Laude) with practical engineering instincts honed at startups and large tech firms. A subtle strength is his ability to bridge multi-view 3D mapping insights with monocular video tracking approaches, allowing cross-pollination of ideas between mapping and per-frame perception.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Communications Engineering, 1.2 (High Distinction), Master of Science - MS, Communications Engineering, 1.2 (High Distinction) at Technical University MunichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Magna cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Magna cum Laude at RWTH Aachen UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, 3.93/4.00 (Silver Medalist), Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, 3.93/4.00 (Silver Medalist) at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Cambridge GCE A levels, Cambridge GCE A levels at The City School
English, Urdu, German
Github Skills (55)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
numpy9
autograd9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
audio9
tensor9
gpu-acceleration9
nlp8
compression8
scikit-fmm8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Ali2500/HODOR
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 22 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
Ali2500/BURST-benchmark
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 2 months
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