Leading a team to launch AI/ML models for recommendation systems across domains and objectives. Unifying the modeling of diverse product surfaces, conversion types and user consents. Maximizing real-time knowledge transfer from foundation to vertical models with online embeddings. As the core of the strategic model space redesign program, we accelerate revenue by over $2B annually while delivering over 10x investment return on GPU capacity.

Led a team to build generative self-driving models that generalize across hardware and geographies. Designed a lane-aware driving model to maximize safety in complex environments. Partnered with product leaders for deployment on global automaker platforms leading to $2.8B in growth funding.

Led a team to build multi-stage self-landing models by estimating aircraft position and orientation relative to runway. Built key point based pose estimators and aligned a roadmap to solve accuracy vs. latency trade-off. Learned to fly airplanes and partnered with leadership to transition advanced research into a certified solution for $110M A320 aircraft.

Led a team to build an autonomous dishwasher. Designed 6D pose and instance segmentation models for driving a robotic arm to handle a variety of dish types. Secured 7 patents, raised funding to target a $94B market opportunity and developed a licensing model for adoption by leaders in consumer appliances.

Led a team to build vision models for mobile learning games. Enabled apps to understand the physical world to create immersive mixed-reality learning experiences for millions of users. Grew a global org across five countries to scale 20 iOS/android apps and backend services for accelerating a $120M business amid covid-induced remote learning growth.

Led a team to build geospatial analytics to monitor the world. Developed a geolocation search model and time-series based monitoring to extract actionable intelligence from satellite data. Partnered with global enterprises to deliver value from raw global imagery leading to $132M in funding.

Led a team to build computational wafer inspection for chips. Achieved a breakthrough 8.9 nm sensitivity and introduced AI models for defect classification. Secured 10 patents, raised funding to target a $4B market opportunity and developed a licensing model for adoption by world’s leading semiconductor fabs.

Led a team to build video streaming algos for security cameras. Pioneered H.265 compression on FPGAs, ultra low-light imaging and streamed the first HD video from space. Partnered with product leaders to scale a $80M business amid rapid commoditization of cameras.

Designed multi-view 3D imaging and holographic target detection at 1000+ fps. Secured 3 patents and collaborated with next gen product leaders in the U.S. and Japan.

Designed mission-critical defect detection systems used by world's leading chipmakers.

Solved a critical field vs. resolution trade-off in 3D with holograms.

Outstanding PhD award for formulating the double helix point spread function.

Resolved molecules in 3D, broke diffraction limit and contributed to the 2014 Nobel Prize.

Developed wavefront coding for extended depth.

Decoded insights from images.

Developed market maker, trade monitor apps for a quant strategy trusted with $60B capital.

Gold medal for accelerating sorting with multilayer perceptrons.