Heydar Afkham
Founder And CEO at 23rd Studio AB
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolHeydar Afkham is a founder and CEO with 11 years of experience applying deep learning and computer vision to industrial automation and healthcare. With a PhD in Computer Vision from KTH and postdoc experience in computational biology, he bridges rigorous research with product-focused ML deployments, having led projects across security, adtech, cyber security and medical settings. He founded two AI companies—Sarvai AB and 23rd Studio AB—delivering practical ML solutions for Swedish industry and adapting research prototypes into production systems. At Karolinska University Hospital he translated data science into clinical workflows, and his academic roles include supervising masters and PhD students on fashion-focused computer vision. Based in Stockholm, he pairs strong mathematical foundations with hands-on engineering to simplify complex visual AI problems into reliable automation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Pure Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Pure Mathematics at Shahid Beheshti University
Persian, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
statisticalbiotechnology/GPTime
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 2 tags in 9 months
xheydar/NeuralSnippets
Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:202 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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