Sattar Vakili
Sattar Vakili
Pronouns: they/them
Principal AI Research Manager, MediaTek Research
- Joined July 2019
Names
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
Expertise
Foundation models
2023 – Present
Reinforcement Learning
2021 – Present
Bayesian Optimization
2019 – Present
Kernel methods
2018 – Present
Stochastic Optimization
2016 – Present
Bandits
2012 – Present