Farshid Farhat

AI Roboticist
Dexterity Inc.
Address: 1205 Veterans Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063.
Email: farshid83 AT GMAIL
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About Me

Working at an AI-aware Robotics start-up (Dexterity.ai) is my current status. My broad experience is specialized in executive management (4+yr), artificial intelligence (AI) specially machine learning (ML), computer vision (CV), and image processing (8+yr), back-end/infrastructure development (4+yr), front-end development (4+yr), and networking/security (3+yr). While I am highly interested to create/exploit open-source code in an optimized way for a new/better solution of challenging problems while no fear to explore any new research area or technology. I joined RoboticEQ (aka Simplr Technologies) as the CEO in June 2017. RoboticEQ was the spinoff of the project that I was working since my CS PhD by a seed fund for innovation from Penn State. I was a member of Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) research lab at Penn State. I was working with Prof. James Wang (adviser) and Prof. Jesse Barlow (co-adviser), also collaborating with Prof. Zihan Zhou. My research interests lie in the area of computer vision, machine learning and big data computing. More specifically, I am interested in image aesthetics/composition understanding using conventional machine and deep learning, image retrieval and ranking, and multimedia processing. Also I am working in the field of big data computing specially on resource allocation in distributed systems and parallel computing.

Projects

  • Smart cropping with JNI implementation in Android
  • Aesthetic scoring using smartphone GPU
  • Portrait Composition Assistance (Dissertation-related)
  • Human body pose classification and recognition (Dissertation-related)
  • Emotion-aware Local Guide with iOS implementation
  • Severe weather forecasting using shape matching

Collaborators

  • Graduates: Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Mohammad-Mehdi Kamani, Yu Luo.
  • Undergrads: Sahil Mishra, Luke Porupski, Jeremy Ong, Yizhi Huang, Jeffery Cao, Shengguang Bai.

Publications

  • Security Weaknesses in PGP Protocol, F Farhat, M Heydari, MR Aref, 2013.