Behrad Toghi
AI Lead - Office Of Chief AI Officer at General Motors
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBehrad Toghi is an AI research scientist and tech leader with eight years of experience building production-grade ML and robotics systems across automotive and consumer tech. Currently leading AI in General Motors’ Office of the Chief AI Officer, he previously helmed special projects and robotics foundation-model efforts at Apple, and has deep domain experience in autonomous driving from roles at Honda, Mercedes‑Benz, and Ford. His work spans reinforcement learning, behavior modeling, multimodal diffusion and vision-language models, connecting core research to real-world safety-critical systems. Based in San Francisco with PhD-level research experience from Stanford and UCF, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering to transition cutting-edge models into deployed products. Notably, his background bridges vehicle-scale autonomy and generative multimodal models—an uncommon mix that drives practical innovation at the intersection of robotics and AI.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at UCF College of EngineeringPhD Researcher Computer Science Department, PhD Researcher Computer Science Department at Stanford University
Turkish, Persian, English
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Github Skills (12)
pytorch9
neural-network9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
distributed-training8
youtube8
segmentation8
tensorflow8
lstm7
autonomous-driving5
reinforcement-learning5
benchmarking1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BehradToghi/ConvLSTM_VOS
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
TensorFlow implementation of video object segmentation on Youtube-VOS dataset using convolutional LSTM networks
Contributions:34 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
lstmsegmentationtensorflowyoutube
BehradToghi/tools_utils
Jul 2022 - Jun 2025
Personal Tools & Utils that I use in my projects
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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