Fida Thoker
Postdoctoral Researcher at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Thuwal, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolFida Thoker is a postdoctoral researcher at KAUST with a decade of experience in computer vision and deep learning, holding a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on video understanding and building video foundation models trained via self-supervised learning across multiple modalities. He has a strong academic background from Bonn to Amsterdam, complemented by industry experience as a software developer, giving him practical grounding in deploying ML systems. Fida’s PhD thesis emphasized video-efficient foundation models, reflecting a drive to make large-scale models more data- and compute-efficient for real-world video. Based in Thuwal, he blends rigorous theoretical work with hands-on model engineering, often bridging research prototypes toward scalable architectures. Colleagues describe him as focused on actionable advances in action recognition and multimodal representation learning that push beyond incremental gains.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of AmsterdamMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at The University of BonnBachelor's Degree Computer Science and engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and engineering at National Institute of Technology Srinagar
Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri, English
Github Skills (59)
video-understanding9
action-recognition9
contrastive-learning9
visual-question-answering8
transfer-learning8
skeleton8
arxiv8
efficientnet8
weakly-supervised-learning8
information-theory8
generative8
ellipsis8
temporal7
benchmark7
model-compression7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fmthoker/skeleton-contrast
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
fmthoker/fmthoker.github.io
Feb 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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