Hessam Bagherinezhad
Staff Software Engineer at LEVY HENRY M
Summary
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RockstarHessam Bagherinezhad is a machine learning engineer and startup founder with 10 years of experience building efficient, production-ready AI systems across industry and research. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he previously co-founded Fixie.ai and served as Chief AI Officer, and led ML at XNOR.AI where he grew the team and built the training stack for hundreds of on-device models. His background spans applied R&D at Apple—contributing to Siri, iPhone camera features, Vision Pro and Watch gesture detection—and a PhD from the University of Washington focused on efficient neural networks. He combines hands-on expertise in model compression, training infrastructure, computer vision and audio/NLP tasks with experience running Kubernetes GPU clusters and chip-aware ML. Known for turning research into deployed products, he brings both startup grit and large-company cross-functional experience to challenging ML engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
nextjs9
numpy9
typescript9
autograd9
ai9
neural-network9
tensor9
speech9
jsx9
react9
gpu-acceleration9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hessamb/lcnn
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
LCNN: Lookup-based Convolutional Neural Network
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
convolutional-neural-networks
hessamb/label-refinery
May 2018 - May 2018
Label Refinery: Improving ImageNet Classification through Label Progression
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes, 4 comments in 20 days
classificationimagenet
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