Aiden Nibali is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 16 years of experience blending academic research and production ML across Australia’s Greater Melbourne Area. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has taught and published in areas including deep learning for digital histopathology and 3D human pose estimation, then transitioned to clinical and commercial AI roles at Franklin.ai and now Harrison.ai. Aiden contributes to open-source tooling—work on Kornia’s differentiable spatial-to-numerical operations and maintenance of a PyTorch Docker image demonstrate both algorithmic rigor and deployment-minded engineering. He excels at turning research-grade models into reliable, tested components and automating reproducible builds and CI for GPU workloads. Colleagues know him for logical problem-solving, a penchant for performance-focused code (JIT compilation experience), and a preference for roles that continually expand technical breadth.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence at La Trobe University
Contributions:1 review, 44 commits, 12 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aiden focused on automating and streamlining the process of creating and deploying Docker images for PyTorch. They added support for various CUDA versions, upgraded the base images, and fixed build issues. Their contributions included creating and maintaining Dockerfiles, configuring the build process, and setting up GitHub Actions workflows to automate image builds and pushes. The user overhauled the project to make managing image versions easier.
🐍 Geometric Computer Vision Library for Spatial AI
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 44 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Aiden primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of differentiable spatial to numerical (DSNT) operations within the Kornia library. This involved writing new functions for spatial softmax and soft-argmax, as well as render_gaussian_2d functionality. The user also added tests for these DSNT operations, updated existing tests, and integrated JIT compilation to enhance performance.
pytorchdifferentiablepythonvisiondeep-learning
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Aiden Nibali - Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Harrison.ai