Erfan Hatefi
Research Associate PhD Student
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolErfan Hatefi is a research-focused PhD student and research associate with eight years of experience at the intersection of deep learning, explainable AI, and adversarial robustness. He contributed to high-impact XAI work at Fraunhofer HHI—applying Layer-wise Relevance Propagation and AttnLRP to prune CNNs and attribute Transformers—which resulted in publications at ECCV and ICML 2024. Currently based in Leipzig and pursuing doctoral research in multimodal machine learning, he combines strong mathematical intuition with practical systems skills, managing large-scale experiments on HPC clusters via Slurm and Apptainer. A former teaching assistant in algorithms and theory, he brings a pedagogical bent and a curiosity for building explanations from first principles, plus hands-on experience developing interactive PyTorch demos that make cutting-edge XAI accessible.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of KashanMachine Learning Based on TensorFlow, Machine Learning Based on TensorFlow at Blue-White.coMaster of Science - MS Computer Science (Informatik), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (Informatik) at Technische Universität Berlin
Persian, English, German
Github Skills (6)
vision-transformer6
large-language-models5
rest-api1
rest1
mongodb1
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Randkill/weather-app
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
Randkill/node-web-server
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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