Apostol Natsev
Principal Engineer, Tech Lead Manager at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolApostol Natsev is a Principal Engineer and tech lead manager at Google Research, where he heads the Video Understanding team in the Machine Perception group, building large-scale computer vision and video understanding systems for YouTube and beyond. With over two decades of research and engineering experience—including senior research roles at IBM Research and a PhD in Computer Science from Duke—he combines deep academic foundations in mathematics and vision with product-focused delivery at internet scale. He leads efforts to enable machines to understand and describe video at near–human expert level from pixels and audio, translating cutting-edge research into features that make video content more discoverable and delightful. Known for guiding cross-disciplinary teams, he balances scientific ambition with pragmatic engineering to ship robust, scalable systems used by billions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Duke UniversityB.A. (Summa Cum Laude), Mathematics, B.A. (Summa Cum Laude), Mathematics at Belmont Abbey CollegeMathematics, Mathematics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Github Skills (3)
youtube7
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
google/youtube-8m
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Starter code for working with the YouTube-8M dataset.
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
deep-learningdatasetmachine-learningyoutubeyoutube-8m
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