Sadegh Aliakbarian

Scientist @ Microsoft

I'm a senior research scientist at Microsoft Mixed Reality & AI Lab (Cambridge, UK), working on digital humans and generative modeling of human motion. I did my PhD at the Australian National University, working on generative modeling of human motion and human activity understanding.

Sadegh Aliakbarian

Experiences

Microsoft Mixed Reality & AI Lab

March 2021 — Present
Senior Research Scientist • Cambridge, UK

Focusing on generative modeling, body and hand tracking, and digital humans.

Amazon Science

October 2020 - March 2021
Applied Research Intern • Adelaide, Australia

Unsupervised and weakly-supervised disentangled representation learning.

Five AI (now Bosch)

January 2020 - July 2020
Research Intern • Oxford, UK

Enhanced adversarial robustness in deep neural networks.

Qualcomm AI Research

May 2018 - October 2018
Research Intern • Amsterdam, Netherland

Human motion representation techniques for pedestrian intention forecasting.

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