Neda Hantehzadeh
Director, AI Optimization And Deployment
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeda Hantehzadeh is a Director of AI Optimization and Deployment based in Chicago with nearly a decade of experience designing end-to-end AI solutions on cloud and edge platforms. She has a strong track record of building and scaling high-performing teams of data scientists and engineers, and has led computer vision and ML initiatives across insurance automation and consumer device product lines. At Lenovo she now oversees global efforts to train, test, and optimize models for laptops, cloud, and edge devices—bringing research-grade rigor from her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering to production challenges. Known for bridging stakeholders and technical teams, she combines hands-on computer vision expertise with operationalizing models at scale. An engaging educator and former adjunct lecturer, she quietly blends academic depth with pragmatic deployment experience that accelerates cross-industry adoption of emerging AI technologies.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (8)
keras9
object-detection9
tensorflow7
instance-segmentation7
mask-rcnn7
matlab4
semantic-segmentation2
matconvnet2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nhanteh/machine-learning-using-Python
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:73 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nhanteh/Deep-Learning-Workshop
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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