Tarek El-gaaly
Founding Research Scientist at Stealth Startup
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTarek El-gaaly is a founding research scientist with 11 years of experience applying machine and deep learning to computer vision and robotics across startups and major labs, including Facebook, Apple, Voyage and a YC-backed Reality Defender. He bridges rigorous academic research (PhD work in 3D object recognition at Rutgers) with product-focused R&D, repeatedly shipping perception systems for autonomous vehicles and real-world vision applications. Based in New York, he now leads research at a stealth startup while maintaining strong interests in space exploration and translational AI for cancer, Alzheimer’s and infectious disease. Notably, his early robotics internships produced lightweight, smartphone-based visual obstacle-avoidance and depth-fusion navigation systems—an indicator of his knack for resource-constrained, deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at The American University in CairoPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (97)
cnn-classification10
python10
mixnet10
efficientnet10
imagenet10
optimizer10
resnet10
stacked10
mobilenet10
pytorch10
image-classification10
visual-recognition10
distributed-training9
caffe9
matlab9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Tgaaly/pytorch-cheatsheet
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Tgaaly/tgaaly.github.io
Dec 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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