Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Xiao-Xian, Antonio Criminisi, Thomas J. Cashman, Tadas Baltrušaitis
Sam (Sadegh) Akbarian
ML Research Engineer | XR @ Google
I'm a senior AI/ML engineer at Google XR. Prior to that, I was 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.
Experiences
Senior AI/ML Engineer • Cambridge, UK
Realtime on-device tracking and motion generation.
Microsoft
March 2021 - March 2026Senior Research Scientist • Cambridge, UK
Generative modeling, body and hand tracking, and digital humans.
Amazon Science
October 2020 - March 2021Applied Research Intern • Adelaide, Australia
Unsupervised and weakly-supervised disentangled representation learning.
Five AI (now Bosch)
January 2020 - July 2020Research Intern • Oxford, UK
Enhanced adversarial robustness in deep neural networks.
Qualcomm AI Research
May 2018 - October 2018Research Intern • Amsterdam, Netherland
Human motion representation techniques for pedestrian intention forecasting.
Selected Publications
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Balamurugan Thambiraja, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Darren Cosker, Justus Thies
Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Lohit Petikam, Shideh Rezaeifar, Louis Florentin, Zafiirah Hosenie, Thomas J Cashman, Julien Valentin, Darren Cosker, Tadas Baltrusaitis
Hanz Cuevas Velasquez, Charlie Hewitt, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Tadas Baltrusaitis
Sadegh Aliakbarian, Fatemeh Saleh, David Collier, Pashmina Cameron, Darren Cosker
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Balamurugan Thambiraja, Ikhsanul Habibie, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Darren Cosker, Christian Theobalt, Justus Thies
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Siwei Zhang, Qianli Ma, Yan Zhang, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Darren Cosker, Siyu Tang
Sadegh Aliakbarian, Pashmina Cameron, Federica Bogo, Andew Fitzgibbon, Thomas J. Cashman
Sadegh Aliakbarian, Fatemeh Saleh, Lars Petersson, Stephen Gould, Mathieu Salzmann
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Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Hamid Rezatofighi, Mathieu Salzmann, Stephen Gould
Jing Zhang, Deng-Ping Fan, Yuchao Dai, Saeed Anwar, Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Nick Barnes
Sadegh Aliakbarian, Fatemeh Saleh, Mathieu Salzmann, Lars Petersson, Stephen Gould
VIENA2: A Driving Anticipation Dataset
ACCV 2018Sadegh Aliakbarian, Fatemeh Saleh, Mathieu Salzmann, Basura Fernando, Lars Petersson, Lars Andersson
Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Mathieu Salzmann, Lars Petersson, Jose M Alvarez
Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Mathieu Salzmann, Lars Petersson, Jose M Alvarez, Stephen Gould
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Sadegh Aliakbarian, Fatemeh Saleh, Mathieu Salzmann, Basura Fernando, Lars Petersson, Lars Andersson
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Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Mathieu Salzmann, Lars Petersson, Jose M Alvarez
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Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Mathieu Salzmann, Lars Petersson, Stephen Gould, Jose M Alvarez
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Latest News
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Based on the Deep Generative Models lecture by Stefano Ermon, I wrote a brief tutorial note on energy, score, and diffusion-based models.
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From March 2021, I joined Microsoft Mixed Reality and AI Lab-Cambridge (UK) as a research scientist.
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Finished my PhD on Deep Sequence Learning for Video Anticipation at the Australian National University.
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Selected for Outstanding Reviewer Award at CVPR 2020.
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