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Reza Zadeh

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Reza Zadeh
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materStanford University (Ph.D.)
Carnegie Mellon University (M.Sc.)
University of Waterloo (B.S.)
Known forMachine Learning
Recommender Systems
Computer Vision
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsStanford University
Thesis Large Scale Graph Completion
Doctoral advisorGunnar Carlsson
Websitestanford.edu/~rezab

Reza Zadeh (Persian: رضا زاده) is an American computer scientist and technology executive working on machine learning. He is adjunct professor at Stanford University, CEO of Matroid,[1][2] and a founding team member at Databricks.[3] His work focuses on machine learning, distributed computing, and discrete applied mathematics.[4][5][6] His awards include a KDD Best Paper Award[7] and the Gene Golub Outstanding Thesis Award at Stanford.

Work

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Computer Vision

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The Princeton University ModelNet challenge is an object recognition competition to classify 3D Computer-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 at Stanford hospital, Reza's research team created a neural network to automatically detect Glaucoma in 3D optical coherence tomography images of the eyeball. The net surpassed human doctor performance and is providing diagnostic hints at the hospital.[9]

In 2016, Reza founded Matroid, inc to commercialize computer vision research by building a product for industries such as manufacturing and industrial sensors. Matroid raised $13.5 million from New Enterprise Associates, Intel, and others.

Distributed Machine Learning

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Reza is a coauthor of Apache 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 at Databricks, the company commercializing Spark.

Recommender Systems

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Reza created the machine learning algorithm behind Twitter's Who-To-Follow project[13] and subsequently released it to open 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]

AI Responsibility

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During the G7 forum in Italy, Pope Francis stressed that humanity is in great danger, due to the wars that are taking place such as the war in Ukraine, in Gaza, the excessive use of artificial 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]

Personal

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Reza was born during the Iran–Iraq War in the under-siege city of Ahvaz. 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 from University 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 at Carnegie Mellon University and PhD at Stanford, all in Computer Science and Mathematics.

References

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  1. ^ "Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering Faculty". Stanford University. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. ^ Martin, Scott (2017-03-27). "A Life's Ambition, Matroid Launches". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  3. ^ "University of Toronto - Creative Destruction Lab". University of Toronto - Creative Destruction Lab. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  4. ^ Beyer, David (3 May 2015). "On the evolution of machine learning". O'Reilly Media.
  5. ^ Simonite, Tom. "AI Supercomputer Built by Tapping Data Warehouses for Their Idle Computing Power". MIT Technology Review.
  6. ^ Beyer, David (February 2016). The Future of Machine Intelligence: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners (PDF). O'Reilly Media.
  7. ^ "SIGKDD Awards : 2016 SIGKDD Best Paper Award Winners". www.kdd.org. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
  8. ^ Hegde, Vishakh; Zadeh, Reza (2016-11-26). "FusionNet: 3D Object Classification Using Multiple Data Representations" (PDF). Princeton ModelNet. arXiv:1607.05695 – via Princeton University.
  9. ^ Noury, Erfan; Mannil, Suria S.; Chang, Robert T.; Ran, An Ran; Cheung, Carol Y.; Thapa, Suman S.; Rao, Harsha L.; Dasari, Srilakshmi; Riyazuddin, Mohammed; Nagaraj, Sriharsha; Zadeh, Reza (2019-10-14). "Detecting Glaucoma Using 3D Convolutional Neural Network of Raw SD-OCT Optic Nerve Scans". arXiv:1910.06302 [eess.IV].
  10. ^ Meng, Xiangrui; Bradley, Joseph; Yavuz, Burak; Sparks, Evan; et al. (2016). "MLlib: Machine Learning in Apache Spark" (PDF). Journal of Machine Learning Research. 17. arXiv:1505.06807.
  11. ^ "Matrix Computations and Optimization in Apache Spark". www.kdd.org. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  12. ^ "Machine Learning using Big Data: How Apache Spark Can Help | Biomedical Computation Review". biomedicalcomputationreview.org. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  13. ^ Pankaj Gupta, Ashish Goel, Jimmy Lin, Aneesh Sharma, Dong Wang, and Reza Bosagh Zadeh WTF:The who-to-follow system at Twitter, Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
  14. ^ Harris, Derrick. "Gigaom | Twitter open sourced a recommendation algorithm for massive datasets".
  15. ^ Shu, Catherine (2 May 2014). "Tweets Can Guide Emergency Responders Almost Immediately After An Earthquake". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  16. ^ Wagner, Kurt (2 May 2014). "Can Studying Tweets Lead to Faster Earthquake Recovery?". Mashable. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  17. ^ "Stanford turns to Twitter to track earthquakes". Engadget. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  18. ^ "Pope Francis meets with world leaders at G7 summit". Vatican News.com. June 14, 2024. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  19. ^ "Pope to business leaders: Philanthropy is not enough - Vatican News". www.vaticannews.va. 2024-06-15. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  20. ^ Zeller, Jeff (2024-06-15). "Matroid at G7 Summit Sidelines with His Holiness Pope Francis". Matroid. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  21. ^ "Pope to G7: AI is 'neither objective nor neutral' - Vatican News". www.vaticannews.va. 2024-06-14. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
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