Omead Pooladzandi
Co-Founder at Prism ML
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmead Pooladzandi is a machine learning researcher-turned-founder with eight years of experience applying deep learning to signal processing, computer vision, and language tasks. A UCLA PhD and former Meta Research Scientist, he developed VAEs for speech resynthesis and advanced optimizers (PSGD LRA, XMat) that outperformed SOTA with minimal overhead. He’s translated research into industry impact at Meta and Neural Propulsion Systems and now co-leads Prism ML to bring cutting-edge algorithms to product. His background includes internships at JPL and a visiting research role at Caltech, reflecting a blend of aerospace-grade systems thinking and academic rigor. Known for publishing, patenting, and collaborating across research and engineering teams, he focuses on robust optimization and speech/audio problems. Based in Irvine, CA, he pairs deep theoretical expertise with a practical drive to ship deployable ML solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High school Diploma, High school Diploma at University High SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Persian, Spanish
Github Skills (52)
foundation-models9
xla8
python8
deep-learning8
ai8
machine-learning8
large-language-models8
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch8
llm7
llm-inference7
gpu7
jax7
optimization7
language-model7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opooladz/ece_210_final_project
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes in 6 months
opooladz/Preconditioned-Stochastic-Gradient-Descent
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
A repo based on XiLin Li's PSGD repo that extends some of the experiments.
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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