Andrei Mihalea is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Bucharest with eight years of experience applying AI and deep learning to computer vision and financial data. He progressed from R&D intern to staff-level roles at Xperi and Tobii, blending research rigor from his ongoing PhD in Artificial Intelligence with hands-on production engineering. Andrei contributes to open-source ML tooling—most notably adding a margin ranking loss implementation to the mature mlpack C++ library—demonstrating attention to performance, testing, and code quality. He brings a pragmatic research-to-production mindset, comfortable shipping low-level, high-performance components as well as developing higher-level ML solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
mlpack: a fast, header-only C++ machine learning library
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Andrei implemented the margin ranking loss function, a key component for machine learning model training, by creating the necessary header and implementation files. They also integrated the new loss function into the test suite, demonstrating a focus on functionality and validation. Further commits involved solving style checks and merging updates, indicating active contribution and code maintenance within the project.
[CVPR 2023] InternImage: Exploring Large-Scale Vision Foundation Models with Deformable Convolutions
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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Andrei Mihalea - Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tobii