Alex Colburn
Affiliate Associate Professor
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Colburn is an applied researcher and Affiliate Associate Professor in Seattle with 13+ years building systems at the intersection of deep learning, computer graphics, and computer vision to make 3D data understandable and editable. A founding member of Zillow’s 3D homes team and a former research scientist at Amazon and Microsoft Research, he has led projects spanning capture, reconstruction, visualization, and AR-enabled interaction using RGB-D sensors and projection systems. His PhD work and ongoing collaborations at the UW Reality Lab and Facial Expression Research Group reflect a long-standing focus on neural approaches to modeling geometric structure and salient image features. Alex blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering—shipping production imaging and AR systems for industry while mentoring students and collaborating with animators and architects. An unusual background spanning molecular biology to computer science gives him a multidisciplinary lens for approaching perception and modeling problems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science & Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science & Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Molecular Biology at Beloit College
Github Skills (19)
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
tensorflow7
3d-reconstruction7
neural-network6
deep-neural-networks6
inverse6
3d5
ml5
image-processing4
image4
rendering4
renderer3
rendering-engine3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexcolburn/neural_relighting
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:32 commits in 1 month
alexcolburn/bundler_sfm
Apr 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 6 months
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