Alex Kauffmann Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

A producer at Blumhouse asked if I'd be willing to consult on a killer robot movie he was working on and I said sure. I met and corresponded with the director on all sorts of questions related to AI and its terminology and gave extensive notes on scripts and movie cuts. M3gan ended up being a much bigger hit than I think anyone had anticipated, so I'm reprising my role on the sequel and have since consulted on several other AI-related film and TV projects. I also got a shout out on the New York Times's Hard Fork podcast! (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/podcasts/hard-fork-chatgpt-teachers-gen-z-cameras-m3gan.html @ 52:26)

Mountain View

I oversaw all aspects of an engineering team creating hardware that simplifies interactions between devices, objects, and people. Research areas of current interest: 6DoF EM tracking, ultrasound, magic wands, machine learning + radio protocols, body area networks, computer vision, ad hoc networking, and wearable gesture detection. And always making things out of cardboard.

Mountain View, California

Built and managed a team at Google Research to explore new possibilities in computational photography unlocked by on-device machine learning. I hired a team that prototyped dozens of experiences and launched three experimental photography apps—Storyboard, Selfissimo!, and Scrubbies (check them out on your app store of choice).

Mountain View, California

Led all aspects of the design of Google's Cardboard viewer, transforming it from a one-off giveaway into a scalable, salable product—hardware on a software development schedule!

Mountain View, California

Pre-Kinect gestural computing research, multi-device interactions, and ultrasonic networking. Launched Google Tone (g.co/tone).

Mountain View, California, United States

Principal user advocate on most of [x]’s early projects, where I worked on making super secret future things fun and beautiful — in addition to useful, efficient, and irresistible to everyday folks.I was the first designer on what later became Google Glass, prototyping dozens of head-mounted interactions using inertial sensors, brain wave interfaces, microcontrollers, projectors, film, motion, and graphics software, as well as working on Goggles, early interfaces for the self-driving car, and some as yet undisclosed projects.

Shanghai, China

I developed new products, services, and brands for Philips, Pepsi, Moët Hennessy, Diageo, Unilever, a Chinese-American NGO, and SK Telecom.But wait, there's more.I also delivered against significant billing targets by identifying market opportunities, courting potential clients, creating pitches and writing proposals, scoping project briefs and agreeing deliverables, planning and executing 4-to-12-week projects, managing client relationships and project teams, planning and facilitating idea generation sessions and consumer groups, making creative strategic recommendations, crafting and delivering final output to senior executives, and following up on project outcomes.But wait, there's more.I also managed the Shanghai office’s creative department. And I planned, helped design, and oversaw the construction of said office in an old Shanghai towel factory.In the process I lived in Seoul for 3 months and enjoyed many other random and marvelous adventures.

Shanghai, China

I started and ran a little creative agency with a talented partner. We produced a lot of quality print and web design and pithy copy for small local companies, big international corporations, and 4A agencies. And we had the best name cards in all of China.

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