Ali Taalimi

Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer at Google

Ali Taalimi is a Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer at Google since April 2021, specializing in training and fine-tuning multimodal large language models, with notable improvements in open-vocabulary object detection. Prior experience includes a role at Cruise from September 2017 to April 2021 as a Senior Software Engineer in Machine Learning, focusing on model design, deployment, and troubleshooting within robotics. Ali has also served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Tennessee from August 2010 to May 2017, where research centered on multimodal structures in computer vision, and functioned as a Teaching Assistant. Additionally, experience as a Machine Learning Scientist at Verisk Analytics involved OCR recognition enhancements using neural networks, while a research internship at Honda Research Institute explored car localization techniques. Ali holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Science in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

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