Pooya Fayyaz
Senior Generative AI Resercher
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPooya Fayyaz is a Video Foundation Model Researcher with eight years of experience at the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and self-supervised deep learning. He has led research and engineering efforts from academia to industry, including building advanced video diffusion and character-consistent generation pipelines at Sorenson and now developing Hollywood-grade virtual production tools at Voia. His PhD work and research collaborations (including with Amazon) span human and object pose estimation, navigation, and novel self-supervised methods that improve robustness and inference efficiency. Known for turning core research into real-time systems, he has a track record of optimizing models for production constraints while preserving generation quality. Based in Washington, DC, he combines deep academic rigor with a practical curiosity—summed up simply on GitHub as “I'm just curious”—that drives continual experimentation and cross-domain innovation.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Iran University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at George Mason University
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Github Skills (67)
multimodal10
speech-synthesis10
asr10
machine-translation9
nmt9
generative-ai9
nlp9
large-language-models9
speech-to-text9
speaker-recognition9
nlp-machine-learning8
chatbot8
conversational-ai8
speaker-diarization8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
N-NEJATISHAHIDIN/Pose_from_Mid-level
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
pooyafayyaz/Fingerspelling-PoseNet
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 12 comments in 1 year
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