Reza Zadeh | |
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| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (Ph.D.) Carnegie Mellon University (M.Sc.) University of Waterloo (B.S.) |
| Known for | Machine Learning Recommender Systems Computer Vision |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Large Scale Graph Completion |
| Doctoral advisor | Gunnar Carlsson |
| Website | stanford |
Reza Zadeh (Persian:رضا زاده) is an American computer scientist and technology executive working onmachine learning. He is adjunct professor atStanford University, CEO ofMatroid,[1][2] and a founding team member atDatabricks.[3] His work focuses on machine learning,distributed computing, and discreteapplied mathematics.[4][5][6] His awards include aKDD Best Paper Award[7] and the Gene Golub Outstanding Thesis Award atStanford.
ThePrinceton University ModelNet challenge is anobject recognition competition to classify 3DComputer-aided design models into object categories. In 2016,Matroid was a leader in this competition and the relevant neural networks were integrated into the Matroid product.[8]
In a collaboration with his own doctor atStanford hospital, Reza's research team created a neural network to automatically detectGlaucoma in 3Doptical coherence tomography images of the eyeball. The net surpassed human doctor performance and is providing diagnostic hints at the hospital.[9]
In 2016, Reza foundedMatroid, inc to commercializecomputer vision research by building a product for industries such asmanufacturing andindustrial sensors. Matroid raised $13.5 million fromNew Enterprise Associates,Intel, and others.
Reza is a coauthor ofApache Spark, in particular its Machine Learning library,MLlib.[10][11] Through open source, Reza's work has been incorporated into industrial and academic cluster computing environments.[12] He was a founding team member atDatabricks, the company commercializing Spark.
Reza created the machine learning algorithm behindTwitter's Who-To-Follow project[13] and subsequently released it toopen source.[14] During that time he also led research tracking earthquake damage via machine learning, gaining wide media attention as an example of real-time social information flow.[15][16][17]
During theG7 forum inItaly,Pope Francis stressed that humanity is in great danger, due to the wars that are taking place such as the war inUkraine,in Gaza, the excessive use ofartificial intelligence that is putting at risk to jobs in the world, which made him the first pontiff in history to participate in the maximum meeting of leaders of the largest economies in the world.[18] Pope Francis met with World Leaders during June 14-15 at the Vatican, during which Reza and the pope discussed responsible solutions for deploying Artificial Intelligence.[19][20][21]
Reza was born during theIran–Iraq War in the under-siege city ofAhvaz. From there, his family emigrated to London, England where Reza grew up until age 17, after which he emigrated to Toronto, Canada, obtaining a degree fromUniversity of Waterloo. He frequently visited the US at age 18 to work on the Google Research team, and later moved to the US for a master's degree atCarnegie Mellon University and PhD atStanford, all in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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