ROD-Dataset: A Pedestrian-Perspective Benchmark of Urban Obstacle Classes for YOLO-Based Detection
Abtin Zandi, Ariyan Azami, Bardia Sabagh Kermani, Parsa Abbasian, Roza Ganjipour, Sarvin Nami, Hamed Farbeh

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Computer Engineering Student · York University
Building at the intersection of AI/ML, backend systems, and the hardware underneath them.
I'm a Computer Engineering student at York University. I co-founded Augova, an AI automation company for small and mid-sized businesses, and co-led it as co-president through November 2026. At Appli AI I build backend services for a production AI hiring platform: a recommendation engine, the connections and followers social graph, and the batch-hydration rework that cut p50 endpoint latency 5.4×. I'm second author on the Real-Time Obstacle Detection Dataset, a 25-class pedestrian obstacle benchmark submitted for publication in 2026.
Most of the problems I enjoy don't sit inside one discipline. They need a model, an API, and a circuit board to agree with each other, and that seam between hardware and software is where most of my work has happened.
Right now that means backend services at Appli AI and computer vision research on the Real-Time Obstacle Detection Dataset. From August to November 2026 I co-founded and co-led Augova, an AI automation company for small and mid-sized businesses, where I ran business development and set up how the company contracted with and delivered for its clients. Earlier this year I trained U-Net segmentation models at York's Laboratory of Advanced Biotechnologies. Before university it meant competitive robotics: a national championship, a national runner-up finish, and a World Finals qualification, each one asking for mechanical design, custom PCBs, and firmware that worked on the first try.
I like shipping things that touch the real world. I'm open to research collaborations and internships.
B.Eng., Computer Engineering
Sep 2025 — Apr 2029
Co-Founder & Co-President
Aug 2026 — Nov 2026
Richmond Hill, ON
Augova builds AI automation for small and mid-sized businesses: the phone line, the document pile, and the manual steps between a booking and a paid invoice. I co-founded it in August 2026 and co-led it as co-president through November 2026, when I stepped away.
Software Developer
Jan 2026 — Present
Toronto, ON
Appli is an AI hiring and professional-marketplace platform, the LinkedIn-style side of recruiting rather than the job-board side. I work on the backend.
Machine Learning Research Assistant
Mar 2026 — Jul 2026
Toronto, ON
Junior IT & Web Developer
Sep 2023 — Feb 2026
Remote
Web Developer
Jan 2026 — Present
Build and maintain the web presence for HEART at York University.
Second-author benchmark paper submitted for publication in 2026: 24,326 images, 25 classes, six nano-scale YOLO detectors compared under one protocol. 96,000+ Hugging Face downloads.
Jan 2026 — Present
Built at NVIDIA Spark Hack Toronto on GB10 hardware. Owned the local-inference path — on-device llama-server and vLLM NVFP4 instead of a hosted API.
May 2026 — Jun 2026
Live used-car deal finder that flags mathematically underpriced GTA listings. Built the visualization layer and led the migration to a modular architecture.
Jan 2026 — Feb 2026
Multi-agent orchestrator that runs Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI on one task, coordinated through markdown files on disk. Python, zero dependencies.
Aug 2026 — Present
End-to-end embedded build — PCB design in Altium, ArduPilot firmware, DJI flight controller integration, and full PID tuning.
2025 — 2026
National championship-winning autonomous robot against a 5,000+ participant field. Lead software and systems engineer across firmware, PCBs, and competition strategy.
2019
2nd place nationally and a World Finals qualification. Technical operations manager, troubleshooting firmware live under competition conditions.
2019
Abtin Zandi, Ariyan Azami, Bardia Sabagh Kermani, Parsa Abbasian, Roza Ganjipour, Sarvin Nami, Hamed Farbeh
Abtin Zandi, Arian Ashrafi, Sarvin Nami, Seyed Sina Negahban, Amirabbas Entezari, Parsa Abbasian, Ariyan Azami, Parisa Taherzadeh, Bardia SabaghKermani, Roza Ganjipour, Hamed Farbeh
Languages
ML & Computer Vision
LLMs & Agents
Backend & Cloud
Frontend
Embedded & Hardware
Tools
Open to research collaborations and internships. I read every message.