Summary
Mona Jalal is a Senior Computer Vision Research Engineer with 11+ years of experience building 3D perception and scalable AI systems for industrial automation. At Toyota Material Handling North America she leads applied research in 3D scene reconstruction, 6D pose estimation, synthetic data generation with Omniverse/Isaac Sim, and edge deployment using TensorRT and Azure MLOps. Her background spans industry research roles at NVIDIA and Twitter and PhD-level work in 3D vision at Boston University, with IEEE/ACM publications and patents that bridge academic rigor and production impact. She is recognized under the O-1A visa for extraordinary ability in computer vision and serves as an area chair and workshop organizer for top venues like CVPR and NeurIPS. Known for combining computer graphics, vision-language methods, and pragmatic MLOps, she focuses on delivering robust perception that works reliably in complex, real-world material handling environments. Based in Columbus, Indiana, she brings a rare mix of deep research, technical leadership, and hands-on deployment experience across embedded and cloud platforms.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Enrolled in Computer Vision Ph.D. program (unfinished), Computer Science, Enrolled in Computer Vision Ph.D. program (unfinished), Computer Science at Boston University
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at National University of Iran
High School, Mathematics and Physics, High School, Mathematics and Physics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talent (NODET)
Full-Stack Development, Full-Stack Development at Treehouse
English, Persian, French, Italian, Arabic