Summary
Hamed Tavakoli is Head of Visual AI Systems Research at Nokia with 10 years of experience bridging academic computer vision and industrial ML. He leads research on neural network compression, federated learning and onboard vision, having pioneered hybrid compression techniques, graph-diffusion pruning and stochastic quantization for bandwidth-efficient federated systems. His background includes multiple postdoctoral roles focused on bio-inspired vision, gaze-based interaction and scene-graph semantics, giving him deep expertise in visual attention and unsupervised feature learning. Known for moving ideas from lab to product, he has delivered applied innovations for drone navigation and multimedia processing while contributing to standards around model compression. Based in Espoo, Finland, he combines rigorous academic training (PhD, University of Oulu) with practical leadership in large-scale industrial research teams.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Islamic Azad University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Oulu