Keyan Ghazi-zahedi
Head Of Artificial Intelligence And Head Of Engineering at Particula
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKeyan Ghazi-zahedi is a seasoned AI and engineering leader with 11+ years blending academic rigor and industry impact, currently heading AI and engineering at Particula from Berlin. He holds a Dr. rer. nat. in Neuroinformatics and is completing a Habilitation in Computer Science, pairing deep theoretical expertise with applied work across robotics, soft manipulation, reinforcement learning and NLP. His career spans senior research posts at Max Planck and Santa Fe Institute, tech transfer in industry (robotics software) and public-sector AI consulting, showing rare fluency across research, product and policy. Known for supervising and lecturing while leading multidisciplinary teams, he consistently translates complex models into practical systems. He also curates cross-domain projects—from evolutionary robotics to hate-speech classification on social media—highlighting an appetite for tackling socially relevant, hard-to-engineer problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatik, Diplom Informatik at University of TübingenHabilitation Dr. rer. nat. habil Computer Science, Habilitation Dr. rer. nat. habil Computer Science at Leipzig UniversityDr. rer. nat Neuroinformatik, Dr. rer. nat Neuroinformatik at Universität OsnabrückPostgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence, Postgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
English, German
Github Skills (70)
simulator10
scientific-computing10
optimization10
matrix10
statistics10
meta-tags10
golang10
pybullet10
julia10
database10
graph10
go10
data-analysis10
simulation10
robotics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kzahedi/Robotik
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
kzahedi/Shannon.jl
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 11 months
information-theoryentropybinarizetheorykl-divergence
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