Summary
Alexander Vakhitov is a Senior Director of Perception and AI with two decades of expertise turning cutting-edge computer vision and generative AI research into production robotics and AR/VR solutions. He has led R&D and product efforts across startups and research labs—co-founding an AI-driven company and shipping perception systems for transportation, consumer and industrial robotics, and immersive photorealistic human avatars on smartphones. A PhD mathematician with 37 publications and over 1,100 citations, he bridges deep academic credibility (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICRA) with pragmatic engineering that meets commercial SLAM, visual relocalisation and real-time semantic perception needs. Known for calm, people-first leadership, he accelerates team growth while delivering disruptive prototypes and scalable deployments for major customers including Meta. An uncommon strength: combining generative AI for image/video synthesis with real-time on-robot perception to enable novel, product-ready experiences.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics and Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
Master's degree Innovaton Management, Master's degree Innovaton Management at LUT University
Russian, English, German