Zahoor Zafrulla
Principal Engineer at Airbus
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZahoor Zafrulla is a Principal Engineer in Mountain View with a decade of experience applying machine learning to computational biology, computer vision, and human–computer interaction. His career spans academia and industry—from a PhD at Georgia Tech and ML research at Stanford Medicine to product-focused roles at 10x Genomics, Planet, and Airbus—bridging foundational research and production engineering. He specializes in gesture and pattern recognition, bringing deep expertise in applied vision systems and biology-informed ML models. Zahoor has a track record of moving prototypes into deployed systems across robotics, remote collaboration, and genomics workflows, and often works at the intersection of sensors, 3D data, and HCI. Notably, his background includes building robust hand-tracking and wearable-camera localization systems early in his career, reflecting a long-standing practical focus on real-world sensing challenges.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Science & Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Information Science & Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (8)
rna-seq9
chip-seq7
zoo6
deep-learning4
api4
loss-functions3
accessibility2
keras2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kundajelab/basepairmodels
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 223 commits in 2 years 3 months
kundajelab/genomics-DL-archsandlosses
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
A collection of Deep Learning architectures and loss functions from across the genomics literature
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 1 month
deep-learningloss-functions
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