Ali Diba
Scientist at iThermAI
Doha, Qatar
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Diba is a scientist and computer vision researcher with a decade of experience translating deep learning research into real-world products across academia and industry. He holds a PhD from KU Leuven and has led R&D teams and startups—serving as CTO at Sensifai, co-founding an AI-on-edge startup, and developing AI models for cancer screening at Lunit—before joining Qatar Computing Research Institute. His work spans image and video understanding, smart shopping analytics, and edge AI, and he continues to advise startups like iThermAI while maintaining an active research profile visible on Google Scholar. Known for bridging rigorous research with product-focused engineering, he combines academic depth with hands-on deployment experience in regulated domains such as healthcare.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer vision and machine learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer vision and machine learning at KU LeuvenMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Artificial Intelligence at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
video-understanding8
action-recognition7
python5
activity-recognition5
deep-learning4
computer-vision4
pytorch4
3d4
localization2
classification2
caffe2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alidiba67/alidiba67.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jun 2026
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 3 months
holistic-video-understanding/Mini-HVU
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
The Holistic Video Understanding Mini Dataset
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 comment in 10 months
video-understanding
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