Andy Wilson
Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Wilson is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research with over 11 years of professional experience and a deep academic foundation in computer science from Cornell and MIT. He focuses on applying sensing and projection technologies to real-world problems, blending hands-on engineering with research-driven product partnerships. Andy has contributed full-stack improvements to notable open-source work such as Microsoft's RoomAliveToolkit, enhancing calibration, projection mapping, and robustness around Kinect and SharpDX dependencies. Based in Seattle, he bridges academic rigor and production-quality software, often surfacing practical fixes—like improved error handling and serialization migrations—that make research prototypes more deployable. His career combines long-term institutional research at Microsoft with pragmatic engineering that accelerates adoption of novel sensing interactions.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (6)
sharpdx10
csharp10
kinect10
dotnet-core10
3d-graphics9
exception-handling8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/RoomAliveToolkit
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:112 commits, 2 PRs, 167 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the RoomAliveToolkit, focusing on improving the calibration and projection mapping samples. Their initial commits involved setting up the project and fixing build issues related to dependencies, specifically referencing SharpDX and Microsoft.Kinect libraries. Subsequent commits refined the build configuration and included changes to enhance error checking, exception handling, and the migration to the DataContractSerializer.
thundercarrot/ORB_SLAM3
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAM
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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