Ali Farhadi, a computer vision expert, is set to return to Allen Institute for AI (AI2) as the second chief executive officer in the Seattle-based non-profit research organisation’s history. Farhadi is a stalwart in the AI community, having completed his doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. He is also the man behind discovering YOLO Object detection and was a senior research manager at AI2 from 2014 before joining Apple. Farhadi is also a professor at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington and co-founded the first on-device deep learning company, XNor.ai, which was acquired by Apple in 2020.
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