Fariborz Taherkhani
Lead Software Engineer at FORTNA
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFariborz Taherkhani is a Lead Software Engineer and senior AI researcher with a PhD in Computer Science and nine years of experience building multimodal AI systems, computer vision models, and production-ready software. He translated advanced research in controllable 3D face generation and disentangled facial expression GANs at Carnegie Mellon and in collaboration with Meta into practical capabilities for avatars and synthetic data. At Fortna he has moved from senior to lead engineering roles, bridging cutting-edge research with scalable engineering delivery. His expertise spans GANs, diffusion models, graph neural networks, and self-/semi-supervised learning, with a track record in domain adaptation, 3D point cloud work, and action recognition. Notably, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on system design, making him adept at turning novel generative research into deployable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Shahid Beheshti UniversityMaster's degree Computer Engineering Major: Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Computer Engineering Major: Artificial Intelligence at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (21)
nvidia8
backbone7
latency6
throughput6
sdk6
tensorrt6
semantic-segmentation6
optimizer6
object-detection5
segmentation5
deep-learning5
mask5
inference5
low-latency4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Ulteraa/Fariborz.github.io
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:207 commits, 211 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
Ulteraa/Detectron2_TensorRT_Pose_Segmentation
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 3 tags in 3 months
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