Aida Farahani

AI Solutions Engineer | Industrial AI | Computer Vision

Aida Farahani, PhD

Building practical, reliable AI systems for real-world applications, with a focus on industrial computer vision, data-centric AI, hybrid AI systems, and deployment-ready workflows.

About

I am an AI Solutions Engineer with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, specializing in turning real-world, cross-disciplinary challenges into practical and reliable AI systems. My journey into AI began in my twenties, before frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch were available, when I designed and trained a neural network for my BSc thesis in Software Engineering. Since then, I have worked across industrial computer vision, data-centric AI, time-series analysis, 3D deep learning, machine learning for FEM simulations, LLMs, VLMs, RAG, AI agents, and end-to-end AI development—primarily with complex, real-world data rather than standard benchmarks. Having witnessed AI evolve from low-level implementations to today’s AI-assisted development, I remain deeply fascinated by its progress and possibilities.

PhD in Artificial Intelligence Technical University of Chemnitz
Applied AI Focus Industrial computer vision, data-centric AI, and production-oriented workflows
Applied & Scientific Foundation Practical AI for real-world systems, grounded in scientific machine learning and research methods

Core Expertise

Computer Vision

Object detection, instance segmentation, industrial image understanding, field-condition evaluation, and visual inspection workflows.

Data-Centric AI

Dataset design, annotation strategy, class balancing, failure-case analysis, and iterative model improvement.

AI Systems

End-to-end pipelines, workflow integration, production-oriented design, validation logic, and deployment planning.

Multimodal AI

Vision-language workflows: semantic retrieval, document/PDF understanding, and structured extraction from mixed media.

Deployment

CoreML, Swift/iOS integration, on-device inference, model export, and mobile visualization prototypes.

Scientific ML

FEM surrogate modeling, 3D deformation learning, mesh autoencoders, implicit representations, and RL for process modeling.

Skills

Python libraries

Python libraries (pandas, trimesh, plotly, meshlab, PyTorch Geometric) plus 3D and simulation workflows: mesh autoencoders, SDF, and FEM data.

Python libraries
pandas plotly trimesh PyTorch Geometric
Frameworks

PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn for model development, plus computer vision: detection, segmentation, industrial imagery, preprocessing, and evaluation.

Frameworks
PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn OpenCV
MLOps and workflow tools

Docker and Podman environments, conda, Linux, Git, Jenkins, Jupyter, n8n automation, Hermes-based local model workflows, multimodal RAG, and document/PDF understanding.

MLOps & Workflow Tools
Podman n8n Hermes Ollama Unsloth
Programming Skills

OOP and languages including C#.NET, C++, MATLAB, and Python; deployment with CoreML, Swift/iOS, on-device inference, and model export.

Programming & Deployment
C#.NET C++ MATLAB CoreML Swift
AI development tools

AI-assisted engineering workflows for prototyping, coding, debugging, and research acceleration with modern editor and agent tooling.

AI Development Tools
Claude Cursor Codex Antigravity

Research & Education

PhD in Artificial Intelligence

Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany | 2026

Thesis: Exploring Deep Learning Approaches for 3D Deformation: Toward Finite Element Method Distillation

M.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering

K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran | 2010

Thesis: Visual Servoing and Object Pose Estimation - 6 DOF Robot Manipulator

B.Sc. Computer Software Engineering

IAU Tehran Branch, Iran | 2006

Thesis: Online Persian Handwriting Recognition using Neural Networks

Professional Experience

AI Solutions Engineer - TKI mbH, Germany

2024 - Present
  • Develop AI solutions for industrial inspection, infrastructure analysis, document understanding, and semantic retrieval.
  • Design computer vision systems for object detection, duct segmentation, color detection, and noisy real-world field imagery.
  • Prepare deployment-oriented prototypes, including CoreML export and iOS visualization workflows.
  • Improve model performance through data-centric AI: dataset refinement, annotation strategy, class balancing, and failure-case analysis.
Industrial AI Computer Vision CoreML Data-Centric AI

Research Scientist - Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Germany

2018 - 2024

Research career focused on machine learning for engineering simulation, 3D deformation modeling, automotive body production, and environmental sensor analysis across BMBF-funded applied research projects.

ML@Karoprod: Machine Learning for Automotive Body Production

BMBF project with Fraunhofer IWU, SCALE GmbH, and TU Chemnitz.

  • Created large-scale FEM training datasets for sheet metal forming where no suitable dataset existed.
  • Used implicit neural representations, including signed distance functions, for dense deformable geometries.
  • Developed surrogate models for geometric deviation, thickness distribution, and thinning on high-resolution shell meshes, including the ML-Karoprod MeshPredictor.
  • Built reinforcement learning approaches for inverse process design and sequential deformation modeling.
Neural-network prediction demo: deformation results update within seconds from slider parameters, avoiding a fresh FEM setup and full simulation run for each variation.

Smart Airsense: AI-Based Health Assistant

BMBF project with Corant GmbH / air-Q and TU Chemnitz.

  • Worked with air-quality sensor measurements logged over time by Corant / air-Q devices.
  • Added machine learning methods for predicting environmental events from noisy real-world time-series data.
  • Developed and validated predictive models in a human-in-the-loop machine learning setting.

Selected Applied Projects

Industrial Vision: Field Detection and Deployment Prototypes

Applied AI · 2024 - Present

Built field-ready computer vision workflows for construction-site and infrastructure imagery.

  • Designed segmentation pipelines for trenches, ducts, fibers, and fittings in construction-site imagery.
  • Handled lighting variation, occlusion, dirt, shadows, and ambiguous material boundaries during evaluation.
  • Converted models to CoreML and built iPhone prototypes for on-device visualization and testing.
  • Connected annotation strategy, model evaluation, failure analysis, and deployment preparation in one workflow.
Object Detection Instance Segmentation CoreML Swift/iOS

Local LLM, Multimodal Document Understanding and Semantic Search

Applied AI · 2024 - 2026

Developed privacy-conscious local AI workflows for documents, images, and knowledge extraction.

  • Built local LLM-based workflows for document understanding, semantic search, and knowledge extraction without external cloud inference.
  • Extracted structured information from complex technical documents, PDFs, and tables.
  • Combined retrieval, vision-language models, and RAG-style approaches for automated document analysis.
  • Built CLIP-based semantic image search using natural language queries, embeddings, and similarity-based clustering.
Local LLMs RAG CLIP PDF Understanding

Get in Touch

Profiles

LinkedIn

GitHub

Location

Chemnitz, Germany

+49-157-5875-1188