Curriculum Vitae
General Information
- Full Name
- Saeed Ghorbani
- Languages
- Persian, English, German
Education
- PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering York University, Toronto, Canada2022
- MSc in Electrical Engineering Sharif University of Tech, Tehran, Iran2009
- BSc in Electrical Engineering Isfahan University of Tech, Isfahan, Iran2007
Work Experience
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer Roper Technologies, Toronto, Canada2026 - Present
- Senior Research Scientist Wētā FX, Toronto, Canada2026
- Research Scientist Amazon Games, Toronto, Canada2025 - 2026
- Research & Development Scientist Ubisoft La Forge, Toronto/Montreal, Canada2022 - 2025
- R&D Programmer Intern Ubisoft La Forge, Toronto/Montreal, Canada2021 - 2022
- Research Assistant York University, BioMotion Lab, Toronto, Canada2019 - 2022
- Teaching Assistant York University, Toronto, Canada2019 - 2022
- Research Assistant Queen’s University, BioMotion Lab, Kingston, Canada2018 - 2018
- Teaching Assistant Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada2018 - 2018
- Research Assistant University of Wollongong, Australia2016 - 2017
- Lab Demonstrator University of Wollongong, Australia2017 - 2017
- Lecturer and Researcher Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran2009 - 2016
Awards and Achievements
- Top-Cited Author, Computer Graphics Forum2023
- Top 10 Cited Paper for ZeroEGGS in Computer Graphics Forum2023
- Mitacs Globalink Research Award York University, Toronto, Canada2021-22
- Brain in Action NSERC CREATE / IRTG Doctoral Scholarship York University, Toronto, Canada2018-21
- Best Full Paper Award, Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI)2019
- Best Computer Vision Poster Award, CVR-VISTA International Conference for Predictive Vision York University, Toronto, Canada2019
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) University of Wollongong2016-17
- Outstanding Student in National University Entrance Exam for MSc (top 0.05%) Sharif University of Technology2007
- Outstanding Student in National University Entrance Exam for BSc (top 0.25%) Isfahan University of Technology2002
Talks and Featured Works
- ZeroEGGS, Zero-shot Example-based Gesture Generation from Speech SIGGRAPH ASIA, Daegu, Korea2022
- Generating Animation from Speech UDC, Montreal, Canada2022
- Using Machine Learning in Character Animation CVR-VISTA Conference, Toronto, Canada2022
- Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Active Vision York University, Canada2018
- Probabilistic Vision-based Localization University of Wollongong, Australia2017
- Ubisoft’s New AI, Breathing Life Into Games! Two Minute Papers Channel
- Auto-labelling of Markers in Motion Capture Vista News
- MoVi, A Large Multi-Purpose Motion and Video Dataset Vista News