Vahdat Abdelzad
Senior Staff AI Engineer at Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVahdat Abdelzad is a Senior Staff AI Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building perception and vision-language systems for autonomous vehicles. He currently leads research and engineering on vision-language action models at Volkswagen Group’s IECC, translating cutting-edge academic techniques into production-capable autonomy stacks. His background spans foundational research at the University of Waterloo—advancing out-of-distribution detection, active learning, and knowledge transfer for LiDAR and camera-based 3D detection—to industry impact including patented in-vehicle features at General Motors. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has influenced policy-relevant work on XAI and AI bias in connected vehicles and mentors cross-functional teams to deploy robust, safety-focused ML systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Software Engineering at University of Ottawa
English, Persian
Github Skills (41)
uml10
python10
modeling-tool10
data-science10
low-code10
machine-learning10
3d-object-detection10
class-diagram10
editor10
ml10
code-generation10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
state-machine10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vahdat-ab/TGRL
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:68 commits, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
vahdat-ab/UML2CPP
Nov 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 commits in 2 years
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