Sahand Sharifzadeh
Research Scientist at Permapot
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSahand Sharifzadeh is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with eight years of experience advancing computer vision and machine learning, currently contributing to the Gemini project. He holds a summa cum laude PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and has a strong academic-to-industry trajectory spanning autonomous driving, medical image registration, and multimodal models (including work on Flamingo). Sahand advises a smart urban-gardening startup on algorithm design, demonstrating an appetite for applying ML to real-world products beyond core research. His background includes award-winning robotics work and GPU/CUDA teaching, reflecting both practical systems skills and deep theoretical rigor. Notably, he co-developed MutLX for clone-specific variant identification (published in eLife), showing an ability to translate research into impactful interdisciplinary results.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Summa cum laude - The highest distinction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Summa cum laude - The highest distinction at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Passed with Distinction, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Passed with Distinction at Technische Universität MünchenBachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Shahid Beheshti University
English, Azerbaijani, Persian, Turkish, German, Arabic
Github Skills (86)
python10
deep-learning10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
nlp9
scene9
data-science9
graph9
natural-language-processing9
tensorflow9
visual-question-answering8
computer-vision8
jax8
torchvision8
neural-network8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sharifza/schemata
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
sharifza/mutLX
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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