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Ali Farhadi

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Corporate Vice President at Microsoft AIProfessor at University of Washington

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian-American

Farhadi co-created YOLO, which transformed computer vision by detecting objects in an image in a single pass. He also helped develop XNOR-Net, a way to run image-recognition systems using far less memory and computing power.

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Background

Current roles
Corporate Vice President 2026-present
Previously
2023-2026CEO,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 24, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26228,781207,268185,754Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
228,781citations as of Sep 1, '26+3,159 since Aug 1, '26
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