Daoud Piracha
Applying AI to Drive Impact
About
Currently: Reimagining computer vision solutions for smallholder agriculture. Leading Project DISA - MILA AI for HumanityPreviously: working on portable, low-cost ventilators at UmbulizerGraduated in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill, previously ML at MIT Media Lab, MILA
Recent Work
Co-authored the Canopy Tree Mapping solution that won $5 Million, First Prize at IBM XPrize Rainforest with Team Limelight and LEFO
Grand Prize Winner, Harvard President's Innovation Challenge
Software Engineer at Umbulizer
Multi Agent RL Research at MILA on Coordination in MARL with Joelle Pineau
Reward Redistribution in Multi Agent RL, Oral Presentation at ALA Workshop, AAMAS 2020
ML Research Intern at MIT Media Lab, worked on Fine Grained Satellite Image Analysis for Social Welfare Programs
Our research on Data for Refugees was presented at the World Economic Forum, Davos 2019
Honorable Mention for Best Paper at D4R Conference (link to paper)
Data Science Intern at MIT Media Lab, worked on Data 4 Refugees Challenge
People
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Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Professor at MIT Media Lab
Joelle Pineau, Professor at McGill University, MILA
Doina Precup, Professor at McGill University, MILA
Michiel Bakker, when we were both at MIT Media Lab
Shaheer, Sanchay, Rohan, Kenneth and the great team at Umbulizer
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