Soheil Ghafurian
About Soheil Ghafurian
Soheil Ghafurian is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Butterfly Network, Inc. in New York, with extensive experience in computer vision and machine learning across various industries.
Company
Soheil Ghafurian is currently employed at Butterfly Network, Inc. He serves as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in New York, New York, United States. Butterfly Network specializes in developing medical imaging technology and Soheil contributes by developing advanced machine learning algorithms for these applications.
Title
At Butterfly Network, Soheil Ghafurian holds the position of Staff Machine Learning Engineer. His role involves working on innovative machine learning algorithms specifically targeted at enhancing medical imaging techniques.
Education and Expertise
Soheil Ghafurian received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Vision from Rutgers University, where he studied from 2011 to 2016. Prior to that, he earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Systems Analysis from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology from 2005 to 2008. His academic journey began with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Industrial Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, completed from 2000 to 2005. His expertise lies in computer vision and machine learning, as evidenced by his numerous research papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
Background
Soheil Ghafurian has a diverse background in machine learning and computer vision. He worked as an Applied Scientist II at Amazon from 2021 to 2022. Prior to this, he served as Senior Computer Vision R&D Engineer at Koh Young Technology, Inc. for 11 months. His longest tenure was at Merck, where he was a Senior Computer Vision/Machine Learning Scientist from 2017 to 2020. Earlier in his career, he held internships at Siemens Healthineers and Merck, and he also served as a Teacher Assistant at Rutgers University for three years in addition to an Adjunct Professor role at Raritan Valley Community College.
Achievements
Soheil Ghafurian has made significant contributions to the fields of machine learning and computer vision. He has published multiple research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented his work at international conferences. Additionally, he has been involved in open-source machine learning projects. At Butterfly Network, he has developed machine learning algorithms for medical imaging applications and mentored junior engineers and interns in the field.