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Kian Kevin Katanforoosh
Lecturer, Computer Science
BioKian Katanforoosh is a faculty member at Stanford University. He teaches Deep Learning with Prof. Ng in the Computer Science department. He is a founding member of deeplearning.ai and co-creator of the Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera. He participated in the creation and early growth of landing.ai.
Today, Kian leads the engineering projects at deeplearning.ai and the AI fund under the supervision of Prof. Ng. He develops industrial AI applications, and designs products to help people break into AI. From 2014 to 2016, Kian co-founded and co-led Asker, today known as Daskit, a French start-up developing ed-tech products for a range of French Universities.
In June 2017, Kian received the Walter J. Gores award for Excellence in teaching (Stanford’s highest teaching award.) He has a Masters in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and a Masters degree from Ecole CentraleSupelec (formerly Ecole Centrale Paris.)
Kian grew up next to Paris, and is passionate about French rap and football. He still hopes one day to be a rapper or a football player… -
Sachin Katti
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science
BioSachin Katti is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He recently received his PhD in EECS from MIT in 2009. His research focuses on designing and building next generation high capacity wireless networks using techniques from information and coding theory. His dissertation research focused on redesigning wireless mesh networks with network coding as the central unifying design paradigm. The dissertation won the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention, the George Sprowls Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in EECS at MIT. His work on network coding was also awarded a MIT Deshpande Center Innovation Grant, and won the 2009 William Bennett Prize for Best Paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His research interests are in networks, wireless communications, applied coding theory and security.
