Hessam Bagherinezhad
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHessam Bagherinezhad is a machine learning engineer and startup founder with 10 years of experience building efficient, production-ready AI systems across industry and research. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he previously co-founded Fixie.ai and served as Chief AI Officer, and led ML at XNOR.AI where he grew the team and built the training stack for hundreds of on-device models. His background spans applied R&D at Apple—contributing to Siri, iPhone camera features, Vision Pro and Watch gesture detection—and a PhD from the University of Washington focused on efficient neural networks. He combines hands-on expertise in model compression, training infrastructure, computer vision and audio/NLP tasks with experience running Kubernetes GPU clusters and chip-aware ML. Known for turning research into deployed products, he brings both startup grit and large-company cross-functional experience to challenging ML engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (22)
python10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
gpu10
neural-network10
acceleration9
autograd9
tensorflow9
tensor9
speech9
gpu-acceleration9
react8
typescript7
ai7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hessamb/lcnn
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
hessamb/label-refinery
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes, 4 comments in 20 days
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