Experience

• University of Central Florida

  Graduate Research Assistant

  I worked on a variety of research projects including:
  * Multi-view Tracking in Crowds of People
  * Activity Recognition in Groups of People
  * 3D Reconstruction
  * View Invariant Object Recognition
  * Route Panoramas for Localization
  * Vision based Navigation

• Educational Testing Service (ETS)

  Managing Sr Research Scientist - Computer Vision and Machine Learning

  Lead a team of multi-disciplinary scientists conducting research and development in advanced cognitive computing architectures for a new generation of video based learning and assessment systems. My work encompasses advances in AI, Machine Learning, Multimodal Analytics and their intersection with education research. In addition I lead proposal development and business capture activities and am currently PI on various research programs leading cross functional matrix teams.

• Rutgers University

  Adjunct Faculty Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Saad worked at Rutgers University as a Adjunct Faculty Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• ACT

  Director, AI and Machine Learning, ACTNext

  Saad worked at ACT as a Director, AI and Machine Learning, ACTNext

• SRI International

  Senior Computer Scientist

  Leadership in design and development of advanced computer vision algorithms for human-machine interaction and automated content analysis from audio, video and other sensors. I also served as principal investigator and project lead on a number of R&D programs funded by DARPA, ONR and AFRL.