Hojjat Abdollahi
Senior AI Engineer at Vorto
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHojjat Abdollahi is a Senior AI Engineer in Denver with a decade of software development experience and a PhD in Computer Engineering focused on machine learning and social robotics. He blends systems-level programming in Rust, C++, C#, and Python with applied AI to build companion robotics—most notably improving the socially responsive behaviors of "Ryan" for older adults with dementia. At Dream Face and now Vorto he has led research-to-product work, shipping robust perception and interaction features while mentoring cross-disciplinary teams. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced multi-line text rendering and bidirectional support in the popular Rust cosmic-text project, demonstrating attention to low-level performance and internationalization. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who turns academic insights into production-ready code that improves real people’s lives.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at University of DenverMaster of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence at Sharif University of Technology
Github Skills (5)
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rust10
layout10
ui-components10
text-rendering10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pop-os/cosmic-text
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Pure Rust multi-line text handling
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 17 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hojjat primarily contributed to the `cosmic-text` library, focusing on improving text rendering and layout within the context of the `pop-os/cosmic-text` repository. Their work involved bug fixes for text selection, optimizations for the text layout algorithm, and the addition of features like padding for text boxes. The user implemented bidirectional text support and improved the text wrapping mechanism.
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hojjatabdollahi/dotfiles
May 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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