Humayun Irshad
Head Of Machine Learning at Vectara
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHumayun Irshad is a Head of Machine Learning with 13+ years of industry experience and a PhD/postdoc from Harvard Medical School, known for bridging academic rigor with product-driven AI at startups and scaleups. He has built and led ML functions from first hire to teams of 10+, shipping production-grade systems across healthcare, wildfire detection, volume photography, robotics RPA, and multimodal generative content. His work spans LLMs, RAG, vision transformers, GANs/Stable Diffusion, and cloud MLOps, and includes patents, 40+ peer-reviewed publications, and contributions cited in a White House report. Notable practical wins include cutting wildfire time-to-detection by 300%, creating proprietary ML pipelines that generated multi-million ARR, and architecting multimodal generative stacks for text-to-3D/video workflows. He combines hands-on model and infra development with governance-focused evaluation frameworks for safe, explainable AI, and is based in San Francisco.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Nano Degree: Self Flying Vehicles Autonomous Flying Vehicles, Nano Degree: Self Flying Vehicles Autonomous Flying Vehicles at UdacityHigh Senior School Certificate (HSSC) - FSc Medical Science, High Senior School Certificate (HSSC) - FSc Medical Science at Govt. Science College MultanMatriculation - SSC Science, Matriculation - SSC Science at Govt. Millat High School New Multan PakistanCIMST Multimodal BioMedical Imaging Summer School BioMedical Imaging, CIMST Multimodal BioMedical Imaging Summer School BioMedical Imaging at ETH SwitzerlandMaster of Science (MS) Computer Sciences (Artifical Intelligence), Master of Science (MS) Computer Sciences (Artifical Intelligence) at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science (Medical Image analysis), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science (Medical Image analysis) at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)Training Course RadioPath, Training Course RadioPath at National University of SingaporeLeading A Scientific Project Project Management, Leading A Scientific Project Project Management at institut national des sciences et Techniques Nucleaires (INSTN) CEA CNRS FranceBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University Of Central Punjab Lahore Pakistan
English, Urdu, Punjabi
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Github Skills (67)
python10
deep-learning10
backbone10
ml10
denoising10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
flops10
sdk9
resnet9
toolbox9
high-resolution9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
humayun/expath
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
humayun/NucleiMorphology_Matlab
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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