At the University of California Berkeley for both his undergraduate degrees and now his Ph.D., Mostafa joined BAIR in 2016. In 2018, he joined the founding team at Covariant. He has worked in academia as well at the industry level in meta-learning, generative models, deep unsupervised/reinforcement learning, and computer vision. He has published at top-tier conferences such as ICLR and ICML, and is part of the core team that built the AI stack at Covariant from the ground up.