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 (17)
pytorch10
machine-learning9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
tensorflow8
distributed-training8
logistics6
decision-making5
reinforcement-learning5
monte-carlo-tree-search4
autonomous-driving4
self-driving-car3
benchmarking1
loops1
benchmark1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BehradToghi/ConvLSTM_VOS
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
BehradToghi/composer
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
train neural networks >2x faster
Contributions:41 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
deep-learningneural-networksmachine-learningfasterneural-network
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