Fariba Yousefi
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at 20minds
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFariba Yousefi is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Cambridge with 11 years of experience bridging research and product in ML, computer vision and medical image processing. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield where her work focused on Bayesian non-parametrics and scalable Gaussian processes, and she contributed a discriminative GP latent variable model to the well-known GPy library. Fariba has applied advanced ML in industry—from award-winning quality-control AI at ControlPoint to drug discovery AI at AstraZeneca—and now combines academic rigour with startup leadership as a co-founder and a senior engineer at the University of Cambridge. Known for data-efficient, multi-task solutions and explainable AI interests, she brings a pragmatic research-to-production mindset and a track record of shipping novel probabilistic models into real projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Informatics, Master’s Degree, Informatics at Middle East Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
English
Github Skills (8)
kernel10
model-building10
machine-learning10
python10
modeling10
model-driven10
model-driven-development10
gaussian-processes10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SheffieldML/GPy
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
Gaussian processes framework in python
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Fariba implemented and merged a "Discriminative Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model" (DGPLVM) into the GPy framework. This involved creating a new `DGPLVM_KFDA` class and other related classes which would seem to involve developing a new prior. They integrated these features, suggesting a focus on extending the existing Gaussian Process capabilities of the library.
gaussiangaussian-processespython
frb-yousefi/aggregated-multitask-gp
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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