Heather Couture, Phd Email & Phone Number

• Consultant to startups using computer vision and machine learning.How I reduce the trial-and-error of machine learning development:
• Facilitate knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders, domain experts, and engineers
• Guide machine learning engineers to the most effective models and experiments
• Handle the challenges of real world data
• Follow industry best practices
• Create a clear project roadmap

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Chapel Hill, NC, US

• Created a hierarchical task-driven dictionary learning method for classifying H&E images (published at ISBI).
• Developed a method to predict molecular tumor biomarkers from H&E - properties that are too complex for a pathologist to assess visually (published in NPJ Breast Cancer, patent pending).
• Created a weakly supervised deep learning method to improve classification of heterogeneous tumors and provide insight into where the heterogeneity lies (published at MICCAI).
• Integrated imaging and genomic data during training to improve classification when only one modality is available; created a new deep learning method that also improves state-of-the-art on benchmark multimodal data.
• Worked on a deep learning method to predict cancer recurrence from histology.

• Research and development of image/video indexing and retrieval using computer vision and machine learning techniques.
• Evaluated new tools, prototyped algorithms, implemented product components.
• Created metrics to quantify different aspects of an algorithm’s performance.
• Collaborated with engineering teams to aid delivery of algorithms into production systems.
• Communicate methods and results to management.
• Projects included: – Scene classification of images and video (e.g., beach, forest, urban) - published at CVPR workshop, 3 patents granted – Face detection, tracking, and grouping – Shot and scene boundary detection –.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Research and development of methods for the detection and size estimation of craters in thermal satellite images of Mars.
• Developed a system to detect rocks in high-resolution Mars satellite imagery and created rock distribution maps for selecting a landing site for the Phoenix Lander.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Research, analysis, and development of methods for autonomous science.
• Automatic detection and classification of rocks: detection of rocks with an accurately delineated boundary (published at CVPR), characterization of rock shape, geologic classification with color, texture, and shape.

Burlington, Ontario, CA

• Development in a team on applications for Ident code verification and printed graphics inspection of optical discs.
• Application testing, debugging, documentation.

• C++ development in a Unix environment on a high-performance visual effects package.
• Integrated 3-D lookup table functionality into Flame.

• Assisted in software design process and wrote functional specifications.
• Developed object-oriented software modules from design/functional specifications.
• Evaluated signature matching algorithms.
• Implemented machine vision feasibility studies on client samples sent for evaluation.

US

• Member of the Product Development Group for StudioTools, a 3-D graphics package for the design and styling of automotive and industrial products.
• Developed C++ and Perl tools to largely automate the renovation of a large codebase.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Worked in a team to develop client-specific user interfaces for a web-based e-learning management system; coded in Java, JavaScript, JSP and HTML.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• “Editor-in-chief” of the Frequently Asked Questions database for VisualAge for C++.
• Worked with the Build, Install and Packaging team for VisualAge for Java.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Master Of Science, Robotics

Bachelor Of Math, Computer Science