Mohammad Sanatkar
CEO & Founder at Forum Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMohammad Sanatkar is a machine learning leader, founder and PhD with 11+ years of experience building deep learning and probabilistic models for production systems in the Bay Area. He has led core perception ML teams at Waymo and Cruise, designed scalable generative and discriminative models at eBay, and now runs SelfMachines, a no-code platform for building customized information retrieval and processing pipelines. His strengths span vision, NLP, RL and Bayesian methods, with particular skill applying variational autoencoders, multi-task learning and tree-based models to real-world ranking, detection and uncertainty problems. As a repeat founder and Founder in Residence at Forum Ventures, he pairs research-grade modeling with product-first engineering to make ML workflows deployable at scale. Not obviously, his background includes deep theoretical work on Bayesian inference and graph-based algorithms from his PhD, which informs practical choices around model efficiency and limited-label learning. Based in San Francisco, he blends academic rigor with hands-on leadership across startups and large autonomous-vehicle and e-commerce teams.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical and Computer engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer engineering at Duke UniversityAmirkabir University of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Persian, English
Github Skills (15)
natural-language-processing9
python9
machine-learning9
speech-recognition9
nlp9
pytorch9
deep-learning8
transformer8
transformers8
bert8
tensorflow8
jax7
language-model7
seq2seq6
flax5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rezasanatkar/transformers
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:26 commits in 1 month
rezasanatkar/rbmnn
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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