Andrew Blake
Vice President at Iconic
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Blake is a veteran AI researcher and leader who has translated foundational computer vision research into real-world impact across industry and academia. A former Microsoft Distinguished Scientist and founding director roles at the Alan Turing Institute and Samsung AI Centre Cambridge, he combines deep theoretical contributions (notably on visual reconstruction and active vision) with advisory and chief scientific roles for startups and blue-chip firms. His academic career includes professorships at Oxford and Edinburgh and authorship of influential books and prize-winning papers that helped make “seeing machines” practical. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society and recipient of major engineering and computing medals, he also led teams whose work powered consumer technologies like the Kinect. Now based at Cambridge as Vice President of Clare Hall and an emeritus professor, he pairs strategic AI consultancy with hands-on scientific guidance at several ventures. A mathematician by training with a long view of both theory and product, he is as comfortable discussing variational algorithms as shaping national AI research agendas.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Research Associate and Ph.D. student, Computer Vision, Ph.D., Research Associate and Ph.D. student, Computer Vision, Ph.D. at The University of EdinburghBachelor's degree, Electrical Sciences, 1st class with distinction, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Sciences, 1st class with distinction at Trinity College CambridgeKennedy Fellow, Kennedy Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Github Skills (18)
attention-mechanism8
encoder7
computer-vision6
classification6
image-synthesis6
artificial-intelligence5
transformers5
pytorch4
image-classification4
diffusion-models4
keras4
vision-transformer4
deepfake3
transformer3
object-detection3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andreYoo/Adversarial_IFTN
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:38 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
andreYoo/UIBD_ARAE
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 commits in 25 days
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