Amaia Salvador
Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAmaia Salvador is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft with 11 years of experience bridging academic computer vision research and production-scale applied science. A PhD candidate in Computer Vision from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya with an MS in Computer Vision, she has built expertise in image segmentation, multimedia retrieval and visual instance search through internships at Facebook AI, MIT and the National Institute of Informatics. Her industry work includes applied science roles at Amazon and Microsoft where she translated research ideas into deployable systems for large-scale visual understanding. Fluent in both European and international research environments, she has a track record of cross-border collaborations—from Toulouse and Dublin to Tokyo—that inform pragmatic, research-driven product decisions. Notably, she pairs deep theoretical grounding with hands-on implementation experience, making her adept at closing the gap between state-of-the-art models and real-world applications.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Vision, Master of Science (MS), Computer Vision at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (18)
recipe10
sequence7
python7
deep-learning6
pytorch6
jekyll-theme5
jekyll5
keras5
recurrent-neural-networks5
recurrent5
sequence-to-sequence4
skip3
tensorflow3
machine-learning1
hugo1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
imatge-upc/telecombcn-2016-dlcv
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:76 commits, 76 pushes in 11 days
seminarsummer
amaiasalvador/imcap_keras
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:118 commits, 16 pushes, 2 comments in 4 months
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