Mike Haley Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I'm honored to lead a world-class research group here at Autodesk, helping uncover ways that new technologies can transform how our customers design and make the world around us while responding to challenging concerns like climate-change, automation and industry convergence. Autodesk Research's approach is unique, exploring technologies and solutions (AI, robotics, simulation, optimization, human-computer-interaction, immersive environments and more) but then going beyond that by deeply engaging with customers and creating environments where partners can tangibly leverage these future design and make technologies together with us. Our strategic foresight function provides broad and long-range analysis of signals and shifts in the world that inform our corporate and research strategies. By bringing all these functions together in one organization we help Autodesk and our customers realize a preferrable future by introducing disruptive technologies into our products, by identifying new opportunities for Autodesk and by providing thought leadership to the industries we serve and partner with.Currently, I am also leading our efforts in Generative AI across Autodesk.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Mike leads a world-class team of researchers, engineers and other specialists, at Autodesk, that are exploring the future of how people will design and make things. His team works in the areas of: Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Simulation and Systems, Optimization, Geometry, Visualization and Robotic Control and Sensing. These areas of science are brought together by Industry Futures teams, who work closely with advanced customers and partners, to develop novel solutions to problems in Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Architecture, Construction and Entertainment. This includes expanding the abilities of designers, creating a more sustainable world, and having a positive effect on society and human development.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading a team developing and researching new technologies for applying machine learning to imagining, designing and creating the world! We work in various areas of machine learning such as: deep-learning, unsupervised training, knowledge representation, reinforcement learning, etc. Our work involves developing new techniques for application to 3D information, design-processes, imagery, point-clouds, signal data and build-metadata. My role also includes developing the strategies for incorporating Machine Intelligence into our future products and driving adoption across Autodesk.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I lead a team focused at identifying and developing disruptive technologies to support the various markets and product lines at Autodesk. Our group works in a highly iterative fashion on exciting new products and technology platforms that will support the future needs of our customers. We are currently working on exciting new technology in the areas of large-scale data-processing, machine learning and distributed processing. By leveraging the enormous richness of design data at scale we can transform how our customers design and create, buildings, cars, cities, movies and more!

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I direct several engineering groups building new online web products and running various aspects of our SaaS infrastructure. I also operate in a software architecture capacity to develop new technologies and to coordinate development and SaaS product activities across Autodesk. Technology areas I am focused on include: distributed data and computing; information retrieval and analysis; and browser/client technology.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I run the engineering group and operate as the senior architect for the development of a new online product, Autodesk Seek for searching and publishing of engineering design content in all of the industries Autodesk services.We developed a completely open system that includes:- A custom parametric search engine (based on Lucene)- Large scale distributed processing of design content (using Hadoop and Amazon Web Services)- Machine Learning- A vertical ontology system for assisting in specification and finding of design data- Driving standards for design content and metadataMy team developed the first alpha version of this product in 4 months and in April 2008 it was productized and included as part of our design applications.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Drove the technical direction and led numerous initiatives in the development of the Buzzsaw product for online collaborative project management. In my time on the product it went from a future investment opportunity to a profitable product with over 180,000 users serving some of the largest construction projects in the world.In my role as architect I:- Researched, prototyped and developed new technology directions (workflow systems, BPEL, ASP.NET adoption, WebDAV, custom templating, monitoring, etc.)- Drove the formal architecture and component reuse strategy of the product mostly developed in C# and C++- Performed due-diligence on numerous acquisition targets and led technical integration efforts- Explored and prototyped new products - Liaised with other groups in Autodesk to better integrate products and technology with Buzzsaw

Part of a small team developing and guiding the core infrastructure of the largest on-demand construction management application. This included architecting and developing: - Real-time monitoring systems - Enterprise server bus technology to tie over 20 services together - Data transformation and B2B support servicesBuzzsaw was acquired by Autodesk in August 2001.

Initially joined the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics to work on volumetric medical graphics technology. I developed a completely new platform and product for viewing and interacting with large volumes of medical data (typically from MRI, CT and Ultrasound scanning) as part of a DARPA project for remote battlefield surgery support. This was an extension of my post-graduate work on scalable and incremental volumetric rendering and compression.Later I led a team building scalable multimedia collaborative network technologies to support virtual worlds and multi-user collaborative applications. We developed QOS-based network protocols and conferencing services to manage the complexities of virtual worlds and incrementally streaming geometry, audio and video.

As a private contractor I developed numerous components of an integrated digital exchange and telecommunications system. In this role I liaised with hardware engineers and a larger software team to build: - Real time telecommunications logic - Visual applications for managing and responding to large call centers - Telephony hardware integration

As the first software engineer to join CAT I was involved in: - Developing a digital video security system (both a graphical client developed in Windows NT as one of the first beta applications ever as well as soft real-time video capture technology). This was deployed in numerous banks in South Africa. - Working closely with hardware engineers to develop custom ICs and ISA cards for high speed video capture, recording and communication. - Developed simulations of radio technology for testing spread-spectrum communications protocols - Developed an entire system for video based access control

Ms, Computer Science

Bs (Honors), Computer Science & Applied Math