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Robert Boscacci

Data Scientist

Farid knows his domain and what it takes to succeed in computer vision. Every time I hit a snag, Farid has pointed me to the exact resource I needed to push through. He has done a fantastic job of un-blocking my progress as I dive deeper into computer vision concepts and market my new skills to prospective employers.
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Dickson Neoh, PhD

Deep Learning Scientist

My experience with being Farid's mentee is nothing short of inspiring and eye-opening. Since getting aquainted through his amazing open source project IceVision, I have learned numerous technical competencies through our interactions and became a core-developer of IceVision in merely 3 months after my first pull request. However, what makes him stand out from other mentors is his ability to blend in technical and the more nuanced non-technical skills. Farid has assisted me in crafting strategic blog posts contents that attracts readers attention. In fact, my first Tweet on a blog post garnered more than 200 likes and 50 retweets. Considering that I have only 30 followers at that point, this is a massive achievement! I have since gained a social media presence thanks to his forward-thinking strategies and precise intuition. Farid is a mentor that genuinely cares for his mentees and puts their best interest in mind even though sometimes it comes at a cost on his side. I consider myself extremely lucky to have the opportunity to be mentored directly by Farid.
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Alex Strick van Linschoten, PhD

ML Engineer

Throughout all this, Farid has been patiently helping guide me forward. He saved me from going down some dark rabbit holes, from spending too long studying skills and parts of the problem that needed relatively little mastery in order to get to where I am. Farid has been a consistently enthusiastic and kind advocate for my work, moreover, and this has really helped me stay the course for this project that takes a decent chunk of my time (especially seeing as I do it completely aside / separately from my day job). I feel like I'm consistently making progress and learning the skills of a data scientist working in computer vision, even though I have so much left to learn! My project still has a ways to go before it's done, but I'm confident that I'll get there with Farid's support. (Thank you!)
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Krishan Rajaratnam

Data Scientist

Farid has an extensive knowledge of computer vision and object detection, open source software development, and effective communication on social media. His deep knowledge of computer vision and especially object detection, helped me quickly get up to speed and use state of the art architectures in my own work. His unique combination of technical and social skills helped me significantly to communicate my work on social media, significantly increasing my network on Twitter and Linkedin. Throughout the job hunt, which can be cold and lonely at times, he is always been by my side supporting me anyway he could, and contributing his deep expertise in computer vision. Farid is both a good mentor and friend, and anyone would be lucky to work with him.
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Meghal Darji, MSc

ML Engineer

Farid not only helped me become better with industry standard tools and technologies but also was there to provide emotional and moral support during the entire job hunt journey which is quite a roller coaster ride
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Maria Rodriguez, MD

A surgeon, educator and researcher

Farid has solid knowledge and experience in Deep Learning, specifically in Computer Vision. He is an excellent mentor. He provides guidance and encourages self-learning. He welcomes questions and shares his time and insight in answering them.
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Francesco Pochetti

ML Engineer & AWS ML Hero

The work Farid has put into IceVision is simply phenomenal. I have had the privilege of closely working with him in the past year and a half and, without a doubt, I can assert he is one of the most dedicated and brightest peers I have stumbled upon in my ML journey so far. Not only does he hold deep and broad knowledge in Computer Vision and Object Detection, but he manages to couple his technical expertise with strong communication and leadership skills. Cannot recommend his company and mentorship enough.
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Robin Cole, PhD

Senior Data Scientist

Whether you are getting started in object detection or segmentation, or are an experienced deep learning professional tackling a hard problem or looking to make connections, the tooling and community Farid has built around IceVision is second to none. The wealth of experienced captured and distilled will turbo charge your progress, and the friendly and welcoming community is like no other I have experienced in this cutting-edge domain
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Rahul Somani

Special Circumstances Co-Founder

Farid's work with IceVision is incredible. Using the framework for the first time felt magical, much like using the fastai library for the first time. He is very knowledgeable about the subject and has a pragmatic answer to any question I throw at him. It's rare to find people as genuinely passionate as he is about helping people understand the complex jungle that is object detection.
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Juan Pablo Oberhauser

Data Scientist | Computer Vision

Farid has knack for explaining concepts in a way that is easy to follow. I have watched several presentations of his including a talk on FCOS (Fully convolutional one-stage object detection) where I hadn't read the paper and felt like I had a strong foundational understanding of the paper right after the session. Farid also walked me through how to make my first contribution to ice data which happened to my first contribution to an open-source project. I can confidently say that Farid and team have built a strong community that is welcoming, very open to collaborating, and willing to learn.
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Frederik Strothmann

Lead Data Scientist | Core-Dev. of Icevision

Farid has done exceptional work with Icevision. One of the first things I noticed when I started to use Icevision was the great API design of the framework, which strikes the balance between simplicity and adaptability. The API design is testament to Farid's great and detailed understanding of computer vision and specifically object detection as well as his ability to convey the complexities of computer vision and object detection in a comprehensible way.
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Laurenz Strothmann

Lead Cloud Architect | Data Scientist

Farid's content and IceVision framework itself are always state of the art! Beginner and Deep Learning experts benefit from his content, which is crystal clear formulated and backed with top-notch resources. He combines in-depth knowledge and experience about Deep Learning with excellent code design and a relevant network that connects him to the industry.
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Roberto Del Prete

Researcher | AI Enabled Space-Based Earth-Observation Applications

Farid is a professional AI scientist that shares awesome content about object detection and instance segmentation with his developed framework IceVision. What I like about this framework is its agnostic conceptualization, and Farid explains difficult notions in a very simple manner accessible to many people. In conclusion, I recommend Farid to my peers for having a deep understanding of AI.
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Daniel (NLP) Armstrong

Data Science | Deep Learning | Machine Learning

I have been connected with Farid through the Fastai community and now the IceVision community for probably around 4 Years. He has always been willing to help, and you can tell that he put a lot of time and effort into both his projects and the communities that he is part of. If it wasn't for his guidance and the amazing Icevision library I don't think I would have my object detection projects in production.
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Nikolai Tasev

Computer Vision | Software Project Lead

Farid is one of the people that brings the most clarity in the rapidly developing field of computer vision research. His guides focused on object detection explain the concepts with great details and the illustrations provide fast intuition and understanding. His ability to filter the practical and promising knowledge in the huge amount of information that exists today is truly great. I would gladly recommend to follow his content to bring you forward in your computer vision applications.
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Reza Zerehpoosh

Data Scientist

I famililared with Farid in FastAI forum and found out about the incredible IceVision library. I have been able to put a lot of object detection and segmentations models into production simply because of hard work of Farid and his team and also learnt many new things along the way from his posts which I'm really grateful for.
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Fabio Geraci

Machine Learning Engineer

Farid and the entire IceVision community have been very supportive in the integration of an OD pipeline using IceVision framework into a POC in my current position. IceVision comes very handy when the user wants to setup a serious of experiment in order to test different architectures and backbones, providing a unified and standard method for passing the data to the different architectures. Their continuous development has brought many of the most recent techs enabling practitioners, like myself, to implement some state of art techniques with minimal effort.