About me

I’m a computer scientist focused on biotechnology and healthcare to help people live healthier longer. Currently, I am a director of AI & Cloud Engineering at Genentech and co-founder of Galliot (tech consulting).

In the past, I coded for self-driving cars at Google[X], founded Maktabkhooneh the largest Farsi MOOC (served over 18 million students so far and 7 million active students each year), and launched several other startups. I grew up in Tehran, Iran until I left it to pursue a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at the University of California, Irvine, under the legendary Deva Ramanan.

I have an optimistic-nihilistic view of this world (which is incredibly fascinating for the curious mind). I believe our purpose in life is to explore this universe as deeply and far as possible. To do that, we need more time and more minds, ergo orders of magnitude increase in our life-span and population.

If you’d like to quickly connect, the best place is on Twitter.