Alireza Dirafzoon
Sr. Applied Scientist - Gen-AI Innovation Center (Startups)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Alireza Dirafzoon is a Sr. Applied Scientist and founder with nine years building multimodal AI and voice assistant systems that bridge language, speech, vision, and motion across AR/VR and robotic platforms. He has led production-grade, on-device AI at Meta and Samsung—delivering real-time multimodal assistants in consumer wearables and global voice products used by millions. Now at AWS Gen-AI Innovation Center, he focuses on agentic AI, LLM orchestration, and autonomous reasoning agents while maintaining an active creative practice through Sol8, which merges generative music and visuals. A PhD-trained researcher with 30+ publications, 7 patents, and 10K+ GitHub stars, he uniquely translates contrastive learning and embedded ML research into scalable systems. His open-source Agentic-AI-Systems framework democratizes LLM agent architecture design, reflecting a mission-driven approach to amplify human creativity rather than replace it. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep technical rigor, product-focused delivery, and entrepreneurial flair to ship intelligent, human-centered experiences.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Ignite Certificate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Administration Management and Operations, Stanford Ignite Certificate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Administration Management and Operations at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityAmirkabir University of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering at The University of New Mexico
English, Persian, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
tfx10
guideline10
kubeflow10
mxnet10
machine-learning10
text-to-speech10
machine-learning-algorithms10
system-design10
deep-learning10
ai10
pipeline10
serve10
cudnn10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alirezadir/Machine-Learning-Interviews
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 36 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
ai-machine-learningdata-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learning-algorithmsscalable-applications
alirezadir/alirezadir.github.io
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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