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Reno, NV, US

• Provide 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

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Co-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

Santa Monica, California, US

• Tackled 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

Santa Monica, California, US

• Supported 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

Seattle, WA, US

• Managed 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

Seattle, WA, US

• R&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

Mountain View, CA, US

• Initiated 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

Corvallis, OR, US

Teaching/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.

Hillsboro, OR, US

Development 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.

Corvallis, Oregon, US

I developed a system for real-time brail document registration and finger tracking for blind people, using an off-the-shelf low-resolution webcam.

Neubiberg, München, DE

Projects:- Test platform development and driver improvement in C and assembly language.- Tests automation for electronic boards with TCL scripts + documentation.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science