Raffay Hamid

Raffay Hamid (M'15) received the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2008. He has lead several web-scale systems with visual intelligence that have been used by Disney, ESPN, and eBay. He has also served as a Technical Advisor to large-scale machine learning companies, helping them build scalable computational platforms with vision capabilities. He is currently leading a team of scientists and engineers at DigitalGlobe Inc., Westminster, CO, USA, developing the world's largest cloud-based object detection framework using high-resolution satellite imagery. He is a Researcher in computer vision and machine learning, with close to 30 research papers and multiple patents under his belt. His work has been featured on BBC, Time, MIT Technology Review, and Techcrunch, among several other forums.