Pooya Khorrami
Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPooya Khorrami is a technical staff engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory with 13 years of experience bridging academic research and applied R&D in emotion recognition, deep learning, and computer vision. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UIUC and has a history of internships and research roles at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and GE that reflect a strong experimental and prototyping background. At Lincoln Laboratory since 2017 he translates cutting‑edge models into mission-relevant systems, pairing rigorous research methods with practical deployment constraints. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings deep domain expertise in affective computing and vision combined with a track record of mentoring and teaching from his graduate years. An ability to move from theoretical work to implementable systems—evident from repeated industry-academia collaborations—distinguishes his approach.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Persian, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
convolutional-neural-networks10
arxiv9
machine-learning8
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
neural-network6
oms6
liquid6
jekyll6
zap5
dynamic-programming4
python4
github-pages4
deep-neural-networks3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pkhorrami4/Annotated_Frames_of_Traffic_Accidents
Feb 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 year 4 months
pkhorrami4/Eye_Dir_Est
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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