Sattar Vakili

Pronouns: they/them

Principal AI Research Manager, MediaTek Research

  • Joined July 2019

Names

Sattar Vakili

Emails

****@cornell.edu (Confirmed)
,
****@mtkresearch.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal AI Research Manager
MediaTek Research (mtkresearch.com)
2020 – 2025
 
Senior Machine Learning Researcher
Secondmind Labs (secondmind.io)
2018 – 2020
 
Postdoc
Princeton University (princeton.edu)
2017 – 2018
 
PhD student
Cornell University (cornell.edu)
2013 – 2017
 
MS student
University of California, Davis (ucdavis.edu)
2011 – 2013
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
2017 – 2018
 
PhD Advisor
2011 – 2017
 

Expertise

Foundation models
2023 – Present
 
Reinforcement Learning
2021 – Present
 
Bayesian Optimization
2019 – Present
 
Kernel methods
2018 – Present
 
Stochastic Optimization
2016 – Present
 
Bandits
2012 – Present