Mohammad Norouzi
Chief Executive Officer at Ideogram
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammad Norouzi is a technology founder and research-driven CEO with 14 years of experience building and scaling AI-first products and teams. After a long research tenure as a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, he launched and now leads Ideogram from Canada, blending deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science, University of Toronto) with product and go-to-market leadership. His background spans foundational ML research and practical deployment, enabling rapid iteration from prototypes to customer-ready systems. Mohammad is equally comfortable steering company strategy and diving into technical detail, which helps him hire and shape high-caliber engineering teams (Ideogram is actively hiring). Colleagues describe him as intellectually rigorous yet pragmatic, able to translate complex research insights into tangible product advantages. He brings a researcher’s curiosity to entrepreneurship, often spotting opportunities at the intersection of generative AI and user-centered design.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (12)
multi-index10
hamming-distance10
tensorflow9
machine-learning9
caffe9
deep-learning9
nearest-neighbor-search9
metric-learning8
visualization5
neural-network3
jax3
pytorch1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
norouzi/norouzi.github.io
Aug 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
norouzi/mih
Jun 2012 - Nov 2015
Fast exact nearest neighbor search in Hamming distance on binary codes with Multi-index hashing
Contributions:79 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 5 months
hamming-distancemulti-indexnearest-neighbor-search
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