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Peyman Kazemian

Founder

Chief Architect and Co-founder at Forward

United States

FoundedForward

About

He was a research assistant and teaching assistant at Stanford University from 2007 to 2013, where his work focused on network verification, and interned with Google's networking research team as well as at Ericsson and Canon USA. In 2013 he also taught and directed course content at SDN Academy.

Chief Architect and Co-founder at Forward

Intro paths

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Forward's investors · 3

A.Capital VenturesSan FranciscoAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checksThreshold VenturesPalo Alto · $500K – $20M checks

Co-founders at Forward

DEDavid Erickson
David EricksonCEO and Co-founder
NHNikhil Handigol
Nikhil HandigolChief AI Officer and Co-founder
BHBrandon Heller
Brandon HellerCTO and Co-founder

Experience

  1. Forward NetworksCo-Foundercurrent2013 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. SDN AcademyDirector of Course Content, and Instructor2013Palo Alto, CA
  3. Stanford UniversityResearch Assistant2008 — 2013
  4. Stanford UniversityTeaching Assistant2007 — 2012Stanford, CA
  5. GoogleIntern at Networking Research Team2012Mountain View
  6. EricssonResearcher - Summer Intern2009San Jose, CA
  7. Canon USASummer Intern2008Irvine, CA

Education

  1. Stanford UniversityPhD, Computer networking2009 — 2013
  2. Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessSummer Degree, Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship2010
  3. Stanford UniversityMaster, Computer Networks2007 — 2009
  4. Sharif University of TechnologyB.Sc., Electrical Engineering2003 — 2007

Skills & more

Data Mining10Networking16Python33Django5Java25Objective-C9CSS5Matlab24LaTeX11Artificial Intelligence7C++19C12
+5 moreAlgorithmsSignal ProcessingComputer ArchitectureMachine LearningiOS development

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