Pouya Tafti
IPA: /pujɒː tæfti/
PhD, BIG, EPFL, Switzerland
MASc, ECE, McMaster, Canada
| pouya [dot] tafti [at] a3 [dot] epfl [dot] ch | |
| github | github.com/pouyatafti |
| bitbucket | non-public |
| mastodon | @pouyatafti@mastodon.social |
| blog | blog.nohup.io |
| old university page | bigwww.epfl.ch/tafti |
| linkedin.com/in/pdtafti |
serious stuff
I have worked in academia (where my adviser and I wrote a treatise on sparse stochastic processes), an early-stage start-up (where I led an early ML/AI product), the HQ of a large financial institution (where I built up the team and project pipeline around ML/AI, developed a few innovative services esp. in healthcare, and managed key accounts), and a large consulting firm (where I am currently a director in charge of building up a new innovation studio focused on data and AI).
It seems to be the nature of our times that everything showing a flicker of promise is immediately crowded and drowned in noise. As much as I can avoid it, I’m not intending to add to it.
less serious stuff (farewell card from my former team)
ancient history
random processes, signal & image processing, splines & wavelets, optimisation, algebra, logic & probability, telecommunications, information theory, control, plain C
what I might have done in another life (i.e. occasional regrets)
algebraic probability, intuitionist inference, finitist foundations, medicine, writing my own OS, designing my own chips, or maybe leaving to live on a farm