Logan Engstrom
Member Of The Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLogan Engstrom is a CS PhD and Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI with 11 years of experience bridging machine learning research and production software engineering. During his MIT CSAIL PhD he authored over 15 papers at top ML conferences, earned more than three major paper awards and amassed 5,000+ citations, with additional first‑author RL work from a Two Sigma stint. He combines deep computer vision and systems skills—contributing end-to-end to projects from OpenCV-based touchpoint detection to simulating mouse actions—to pragmatic front-end work like a full‑text history Chrome extension. Past industry research roles include Google Brain and Apple, where he developed domain adaptation and synchronized database systems respectively. Based in San Francisco, he’s equally comfortable shipping research into products and hacking hardware-software demos (e.g., turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware).
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Github Skills (18)
opencv10
javascript10
python10
image-processing10
browser-extension10
opencv310
opencv210
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
touch-screen10
chromeapp10
javascripts10
touchscreen10
computer-vision10
chrome-plugin10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lengstrom/falcon
Jun 2016 - May 2020
Chrome extension for full text history search!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Logan's contributions focused on developing the front-end components of a Chrome extension for full-text history search. They implemented the initial structure of the extension, added a content script for page content retrieval, and integrated basic functionality. Further development included integrating stop words. The user also addressed bugs related to vector methods within the javascript libraries.
full-textchromehistory-searchsearchchrome-extension
bijection/sistine
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Turn a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Logan contributed significantly to the "sistine" project, which focuses on turning a MacBook into a touchscreen. They primarily worked on computer vision components, integrating OpenCV for tasks like finger detection and calibration. The user also made changes to the main application logic, which included implementing touch point detection and system coordinate transformations. Furthermore, they incorporated a mechanism for simulating mouse actions based on the detected touch input.
macoshardwaremacbooktouchscreensistine
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