Saquib Sarfraz
Principal at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolSaquib Sarfraz is a Principal and Lead of Deep Learning at Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Vision from Technische Universität Berlin. He blends research and product impact, splitting his time as a senior scientist at both Mercedes‑Benz and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where he supervises research and teaches. His work spans advanced computer vision and machine learning, taking models from novel research ideas into automotive-scale applications. Saquib has progressed from doctoral research and academic leadership to directing deep learning strategy at a major OEM, giving him rare insight into both academic rigor and production constraints. Colleagues know him for bridging long-term research agendas with practical deployment pipelines and mentoring cross-disciplinary teams. Based in Karlsruhe, he combines European academic roots with hands-on industry innovation in autonomous and perception systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, Urdu
Github Skills (29)
clustering-algorithm10
hierarchical-clustering10
finch10
clustering10
nearest-neighbors9
loss9
python8
anomaly-detection7
pytorch7
ranking7
forecasting7
spatial6
cyclegan6
deep-learning6
data-mining6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pse-ecn/expanded-cross-neighborhood
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Expanded Cross Neighborhood distance based Re-ranking (ECN)
Contributions:31 commits, 31 pushes, 4 comments in 2 years 5 months
pytorchre-rankingdeep-learningneighborhooddistance
pse-ecn/pose-sensitive-embedding
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 27 pushes, 30 comments in 2 years 5 months
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