🎯 TL;DR• 2x founder• 20+ years of Engineering and Machine Learning• 8+ years of Management & Leadership• 30+ patents & publications with 1800+ citations• Worked at Google, Amazon, Snap, ...🚀 Long versionWith 20+ years of experience in Machine Learning, I spent more than a decade helping top tech companies like Google, Amazon, Snap shipping products that are used by 100+ millions of users on a daily basis. I have a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, with over 30 patents and publications under my belt.I specialize in entrepreneurship, leadership, product and project management, fast prototyping, research (CV + AR, NLP-based recommendation systems, big data management optimization, ...). Thinking outside the box, failing + learning fast and leading by example is how I achieve my company's goals.
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Vp Of EngineeringIscribehealthReno, Nv, Us
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Founder • General PartnerCrossroads Venture Studio May 2023 - PresentProvide the initial team, strategic direction to reach product-market fit, and execution to startup launch:• 8+ projects, including automarketer.ai — see our portfolio: crossroadsventurestudio.com• 62.5% success rate bootstrapping to first customer -
Co-Founder • Chief Science Officer • Head Of ProductHeali May 2019 - May 2023Santa Monica, Ca, UsCo-founded a health-tech startup to help people with chronic disease to reduce their symptoms via personalized nutrition:• Recruited and directed a team of 2-12 engineers, product designers, and UX researchers• Architected and implemented AI-based nutrition technologies, supporting 200+ medical conditions• $4M+ fundraised, 8 digits business valuation -
Senior Research ScientistSnap Inc. Jun 2017 - Apr 2019Santa Monica, California, UsTackled machine learning problems from Computer Vision to Natural Language Processing. • Published: privacy-preserving friend recommendation — 14% revival of dead users, 7% user engagement• Designed: Bitmoji recommendation in the chat interface — 8% increase in user engagement -
Technical Program ManagerSnap Inc. May 2016 - Jun 2017Santa Monica, California, UsSupported Snap's research team's growth:• involving 50+ researchers and engineers• monitored 40+ projects impacting 188M+ DAU• 10+ research domains, including face analysis, NLP, scene understanding, augmented reality, video analysis
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Technical Product ManagerAmazon Sep 2015 - May 2016Seattle, Wa, UsManaged products related to data acquisition, data labeling, and big data management for machine learning applications:• Blueprinted the visual search database, the annotation and evaluation platform — 12M+ images and labels -
Machine Learning ResearcherAmazon Nov 2012 - Sep 2015Seattle, Wa, UsR&D in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at A9 Visual Search, the team that develops the Amazon visual search technology.• Spearheaded our mobile brand logo detection and recognition project — real-time performance at 100fps• 10+ patents
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Machine Learning EngineerGoogle Aug 2011 - Nov 2012Mountain View, Ca, UsInitiated and supervised the Suggested Edits project — an automatic system for poor-quality video detection and correction:• Engineered and scaled the feature to the entire YouTube video corpus, impacting 94M+ DAU• Created 10+ various video effects and filters -
Teaching/Research AssistantOregon State University Sep 2005 - Jun 2011Corvallis, Or, UsTeaching/Research Assistant at the OSU Computer Vision Lab under Professors Sinisa Todorovic , Alan Fern and Thomas G. Dietterich. My research mostly focused on 3D reconstruction, feature detectors and descriptors, spatiotemporal video segmentation, event recognition, and in general mathematical optimization problems. -
Computer Graphics Technical InternLaika Jun 2007 - Aug 2007Hillsboro, Or, UsDevelopment of Maya plug-ins with the Maya API (Autodesk product). Perl scripting in movie production pipeline. I developed a rendering system for real-time visualization of heavy computer generated videos. The goal was to have a real-time light weight visualization of video scenes for directors to check and validate the animation. -
Research Scientist (In Partnership With Osu)Viewplus Technologies Sep 2006 - Jun 2007Corvallis, Oregon, UsI developed a system for real-time brail document registration and finger tracking for blind people, using an off-the-shelf low-resolution webcam. -
Application EngineerInfineon Technologies Jul 2003 - Jul 2004Neubiberg, MĂĽnchen, DeProjects:- Test platform development and driver improvement in C and assembly language.- Tests automation for electronic boards with TCL scripts + documentation.
William Brendel, Phd Education Details
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Oregon State UniversityComputer Science -
Cpe LyonComputer Science
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William Brendel, Phd attended Oregon State University, Cpe Lyon.
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