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Kion Fallah
Hi, welcome to my personal page! I am a research scientist at Waabi , led by Professor Raquel Urtasun , working on the next generation of autonomous driving technology. Specifically, I work on AI-based traffic-model simulation to improve and validate the autonomy stack. Before this position, I completed my Ph.D in machine learning at Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Chris Rozell .
My research applied geometric models to deep learning to generate new views of data to improve performance with limited labels. To achieve this, I would use techniques like sparse coding , manifold learning , and self-supervised learning . I am interested in building large foundation models with sparse intermediary layers (i.e., only a few elements of each activation non-zero) for interpretability, robustness, and compute efficiency. One approach I have developed uses variational inference to reach similar