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.
7 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 (43)
gdscript9
computer-vision8
documentation8
game-development8
game-engine7
datasets7
open-source7
machine-learning7
object-detection7
deep-learning6
yolov46
stylegan6
pytorch6
godot6
image-synthesis6
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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