Ardavan Bidgoli
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Higharc
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArdavan Bidgoli is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and computational designer with nine years of experience at the intersection of ML, robotics, and architectural fabrication. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon, where he researched situated machine learning for creative practice and taught courses in architectural robotics and ML-for-design. Ardavan has translated academic research into industry impact through roles at Higharc, Autodesk, and Bentley Systems, developing generative models, robotic fabrication workflows, and human-robot collaboration platforms. He combines hands-on hardware integration and sensor work with production ML pipelines and tool-building for designers, having led curriculum and lab projects that span robotic clay printing to automated timber construction. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a rare blend of design-trained spatial thinking and practical software engineering that helps bridge product teams and creative users.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Design Computation, 3.95, Master's Degree, Design Computation, 3.95 at Penn State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Architecture, 3.7, Bachelor's Degree, Architecture, 3.7 at University of TehranDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Design, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Design at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Persian
Github Skills (28)
computer-vision8
cli8
image-classification7
pytorch7
machine-learning7
pose-estimation7
deep-learning7
python7
object-detection7
3d-reconstruction6
computer-graphics6
cuda5
instance-segmentation5
yolov85
transparency5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Ardibid/SecondHand
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
Ardibid/projects4creativeML
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:61 commits, 9 pushes in 3 days
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