Ali Hassani

Computer science PhD student at Georgia Tech

I am a computer science PhD student at Georgia Tech, and am advised by Prof. Humphrey Shi. I'm primarily interested in attention-based models, focusing on their application in computer vision. It spans all the way from infrastructure and system co-design, to designing new architectures based on attention for computer vision. My longest running project has been providing fast and efficient implementations of Neighborhood Attention, a sliding window attention primitive that allows fine-grained control over attention span, drawing a spectrum of possible attention patterns between linear projection and self attention. Check out NATTEN for more details.

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2024

2023

2022

2022

2021

Experience

06/2023 - 12/2023

HippoML

Software Engineering Intern

06 - 09/2022

Picsart AI Research

Research Intern

Since 03/2021

SHI Labs

Graduate Researcher

2019 to 2021

Mahani Mathematical Research Center

Undergraduate Researcher

Teaching

Fall '23

Instructor, CS 322: Intro to Software Engineering

UO

Spring '21, Winter '22, Winter '23

UO

Education

Ongoing

PhD in Computer Science

2021-2023

M.S. in Computer Science

2016-2020

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Kerman