Ali Panahi
Lead Software Engineer, Machine Learning at C3 AI
New South Wales, United States
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Top SchoolAli Panahi is a Lead Software Engineer in Machine Learning with 11 years of experience blending deep research and production engineering, currently driving ML platform development at C3 AI. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has a strong track record in NLP and model compression—publishing a top ICLR paper and demonstrating parameter reductions up to 100x with minimal performance loss. Ali has built and scaled distributed training across hundreds of accelerators (TPUs, V100s) and designed next-generation distributed ML pipelines, while earlier in his career he shipped full-stack web and real-time systems using WebRTC, NodeJS, and PHP. He combines academic rigor (4.0 MS/PhD) with hands-on leadership, mentoring teams and cofounding a mixed-reality data visualization startup that gained local media attention. Notably, he has experience securing large cloud research allocations and delivering AR/VR medical imaging tools, showing a rare mix of ML research, systems engineering, and applied product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, 4.0 / 4.0, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, 4.0 / 4.0 at Virginia Commonwealth University
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Github contributions (5)
panaali/COVID-19-International-Clinical-Trials
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 14 pushes in 12 days
panaali/panaali.github.io
Nov 2018 - Sep 2024
Panaali's blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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