Alexander Black
Founding AI Engineer at LEGO Digital Play
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Black is a Founding AI Engineer and PhD candidate in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey, collaborating with Adobe on video content authenticity research. With eight years of experience across industry labs and startups—including roles at Huawei R&D, Gentian, FLOX, and Adobe—he specializes in deep learning solutions for video and image integrity. His background blends rigorous academic training (MSc thesis on compositional sketch-based image retrieval and a BSc in Physics) with product-focused engineering, now shaping AI at LEGO Digital Play. Less obvious: he couples research-grade provenance techniques with pragmatic deployment experience, bridging content-authenticity research and real-world computer vision products.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Physics, Bachelor of Science - BSc Physics at University of BirminghamDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision and Machine Learning at University of Surrey
English, Estonian, Ukrainian, Italian, Chinese, Russian
Github Skills (28)
computer-vision8
yolov47
game-engine7
game-development7
documentation7
object-detection7
deep-learning6
open-source6
windows6
machine-learning6
linux6
godot6
neural-network5
deep-neural-networks4
pytorch3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AlexBlck/AlexBlck.github.io
Jul 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
AlexBlck/compsketch
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:76 commits, 75 pushes, 4 branches in 7 days
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