Brian Vogel
Independent Researcher at Self-employed
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolBrian Vogel is an independent researcher based in Tokyo with 11 years of industry experience bridging deep learning research and production software. He served as Chief Researcher at Preferred Networks and earlier held engineering and research roles at Intel, Rovi, and All Media Guide, bringing a blend of applied research and systems engineering to ML problems. His Ph.D. work at UC Berkeley underpins a strong foundation in electrical engineering and computer science, while his open-source contributions to Chainer show hands-on impact on static graph optimization, robust backward passes, and framework reliability. Comfortable moving between low-level refactors and high-level research, he often focuses on making complex neural-network internals more maintainable and efficient—a practical orientation that supports reproducible, production-ready ML.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
web-framework10
python10
chainer10
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chainer/chainer
Jun 2016 - Sep 2018
A flexible framework of neural networks for deep learning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 104 commits, 75 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily involve refactoring and improving existing code within the Chainer framework, particularly focusing on the static graph optimization features. They implemented and improved the functionality of the static graph by adding code, creating schedules, and making a more robust backward pass. The user also corrected documentation and fixed various bugs within the framework.
cudapythonmxnetcaffe2flexible-framework
bkvogel/kumozu
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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