Atefeh Kashani
Senior Software Engineer at Waymo
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolAtefeh Kashani is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of applied experience at the intersection of machine learning, statistical modeling, and autonomous systems, currently working at Waymo after driving perception and sensor-fusion efforts at Tesla. She combines a strong academic foundation in applied mathematics and computer science with hands-on expertise in HMMs, GLMs, clustering, dictionary learning, RNNs and CNNs for fMRI and vision tasks, and prefers Python while being fluent in C++ and core data structures. Her work spans research and production: from graduate research on fMRI temporal modeling to deploying proprietary perception modes that improved real-world autonomous driving reliability. Known for rigorous analytical thinking and teaching experience in probability and statistics, she brings a rare blend of probabilistic modeling depth and production-grade engineering to safety-critical perception systems.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Applied Mathematics at Ferdowsi University of MashhadProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
SCIInstitute/ShapeWorks
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
ShapeWorks
Contributions:40 commits, 15 PRs, 131 pushes in 9 months
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