Mahdi Falaki

• Experimenting with, analyzing, and enhancing state-of-the-art Transformer-based and Hybrid Transformer-CNN-based Single Object Tracking networks.
• Conducting efficiency analysis of lightweight models to pinpoint performance bottlenecks, including experiments with additive attention to mitigate quadratic complexity in traditional attention mechanism.
• Performing searches in closely related areas, like Semantic Segmentation, to integrate and leverage innovations into tracking.
• Conducting literature reviews in lightweight and deep Single Object Tracking.

Project Title. The effect of offline data augmentation on tracking models.

• Trained chosen model on augmented dataset
• Generated 75 distorted test sets and automated testing of model on each; Analyzed training curves and performance metrics
• Provided biweekly progress reports to supervising PhD student

Project Title: Customizable News Website Development (Grade: A+)

• Mainly focused on frontend development and authorization
• In a team of five in agile development
• Ensured scalability, updates, and user customization

Skills Developed: HTML, CSS, JavaScript proficiency; Agile teamwork and project management

Summarized roles as an electrical engineering intern at Saba Palaye:

• Designed and built PCB board to control Bitcoin miners by text message
• Designed container leveler with MPU6050 IC

Math, Physics, and Computer Science tutor.