Ali Siahkoohi
Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAli Siahkoohi is an assistant professor and computational scientist with nine years of experience bridging AI, uncertainty quantification, and inverse problems. Trained at Georgia Tech and mentored by Maarten de Hoop and Richard Baraniuk, his research develops scalable methods for quantifying model uncertainty using generative models, variational inference, and hypernetworks to improve AI robustness. He held a Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rice and research roles at Georgia Tech, UBC, and a research internship at Google’s Chrome Media team, demonstrating fluency across academia and industry. Based in Orlando, he combines deep domain knowledge from geophysics and electrical engineering with modern ML to tackle reliability in high-stakes models. His work is notable for applying theory-driven approaches from seismic imaging to practical uncertainty estimation in AI systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Geophysics, Master’s Degree, Geophysics at University of TehranBachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering - Communication Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering - Communication Systems at Sharif University of Technology
English
Github Skills (55)
inversion10
dsl10
bayesian-inference10
julia10
linear-operators10
convolutional-neural-networks9
machine-learning9
probing9
backpropagation9
parallel-computing9
linear-algebra9
deep-learning9
jit9
html8
monte-carlo8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
slimgroup/dp4imaging
Jun 2022 - Nov 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 5 months
slimgroup/Devito4PyTorch
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
Integrating Devito operators into PyTorch
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 months
pytorchdevitopdebackpropagation
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