Navid Mafi

I'm a software engineer and a researcher. I first used a computer at 5 and wrote my first program at 10. I've been designing, building, and analyzing software systems for over 7 years now.

I'm interested (and thus distracted) by an infinite set of topics. In my spare time I compose music, learn languages, read books and play games. I don't watch a lot of movies.

• I currently live in Iran
• Attended Alborz highschool
• Nearly dismissed myself from Alborz for DoS attacks and leaking credentials (I was 12 and foolish)
• Entered university at 15
• Graduated CS at 19

Research interests:

• Hybrid vision-language models for discriminative tasks
• Texture reconstruction and guided super-resolution
• Multi-lingual low-latency ASR & Neural synthesis
• Masked LDMs for 2D/3D content synthesis

Engineering experience:

• Live Platforms (Broadcasting, Geo-distribution, Delivery)
• Architecture & Design (Fault-tolerance, High-throughput systems, Multi-threading)
• Networking & Infrastructure (virtualization, access, provisioning, reliability)
• Monitoring & Observation (alerting, autoscaling, fault-prediction, threat intel)
• Secure computing (Chain of trust, HW/SW platform security, sandboxing)
• Reverse engineering (drivers, libs, network interception, binary analysis)

Topics I sometimes research:

• Economics, sociology, and psychology
• Telecommunications and RF
• Biochemistry and health