Hassan Akbari
Founder & CEO at Sciforium
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHassan Akbari is a founder and machine learning infrastructure leader with eight years of experience building video foundation model systems, currently leading ML infrastructure for Video FMs at Google Research before founding Sciforium to push efficiency, privacy, and versatile AI deployments. His background spans research and engineering roles at Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, and Columbia, combining deep academic training (PhD/MPhil in Electrical Engineering from Columbia) with hands-on work in self-supervised video understanding and neuro-symbolic multimodal representations. He has repeatedly moved between research and product-facing engineering, shipping systems for YouTube-scale video understanding and now translating that expertise into startup-grade model engineering and privacy-preserving architectures. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hassan blends rigorous research instincts with startup execution and a focus on making large video models both practical and private—an uncommon mix that informs his work as CEO.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Yazd UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Biomedical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Biomedical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English
Github Skills (45)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
ai9
neural-network9
google9
jupyterlab8
jupyter7
jupyterlab-extension7
starlark7
pypi6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hassanhub/LipReading
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
hassanhub/MultiGrounding
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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