Pouya Samangouei
Founder & CEO at ROI-AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPouya Samangouei is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building deep learning and computer vision systems across startups and Google DeepMind. He led technical efforts that combined foundation models with 3D vision at Google and contributed to Gemini 1.5 research, earlier producing highly cited CV papers during his PhD at University of Maryland. Pouya has repeatedly taken research into product—driving pose estimation and ultrasound models at Butterfly Network, iterating through multiple startup pivots, and now leading ROI-AI to boost human efficiency in content understanding. He blends hands-on research authorship and patents with operator experience in fundraising and productization, making him equally fluent in papers, prototypes, and production. An underappreciated thread in his career is a knack for turning niche academic ideas (e.g., Defense-GAN, ExplainGAN) into durable, product-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of MarylandBachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English, Arabic
Github Skills (55)
python10
dcgan10
data-science10
machine-learning10
autoencoder10
ml10
generative10
classifiers10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
adversarial-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
mnist10
neural-network10
generative-model10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kabkabm/defensegan
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Defense-GAN: Protecting Classifiers Against Adversarial Attacks Using Generative Models (published in ICLR2018)
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 6 months
pytorchadversarial-learningadversarial-attacksdeep-learningadversarial
po0ya/face-magnet
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 2 comments in 4 months
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