Alexander Hermans
Principal AI Scientist at Stealth Startup
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Hermans is a Principal AI Scientist with 13 years of experience specializing in deep learning and applied computer vision, driven by a focus on making vision systems work robustly in real-world robotics and medical settings. He holds a PhD and progressed from PhD student to postdoc roles at RWTH Aachen University and the university hospital, combining academic rigor with practical collaborations in AI for medicine. Alexander has industry experience from a Google internship on instance segmentation and now leads research-driven product development at a stealth startup, bridging cutting-edge research and deployable systems. His publication record and public code (see Google Scholar and GitHub) reflect a commitment to reproducible research, with an uncommon focus on transferring benchmark successes into operational robotics scenarios.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
English, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
re-identification10
triplet10
loss10
toolbox9
person-detection9
image-retrieval9
defense9
apex9
backbone9
image-matching9
visual-recognition8
computer-vision8
arxiv8
detector8
baseline8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Pandoro/config_files
Apr 2014 - Dec 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 11 pushes in 6 years 8 months
strands-project/semantic_segmentation
Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:55 commits in 2 years
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