Christian Murphy
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Larian Studios
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristian Murphy is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in AI-driven facial animation and generative art for games and film. He has led ML R&D at Unity and Larian Studios and built production vision models for titles like Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, as well as industry tools such as Ubisoft’s FaceShifter. Combining a strong academic foundation (PhD work in AI at McGill, MS in Computer Science) with hands-on game-dev roots, he bridges research and production pipelines across image, text, and audio modalities. He’s contributed to notable open-source projects like OpenRCT2, improving cross-platform system integration, and is known for training newcomers and shipping scalable facial performance solutions on major productions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Concordia UniversityBachelor’s of Science Computer Game Design & Development, Bachelor’s of Science Computer Game Design & Development at Kennesaw State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (12)
platformio10
linux10
c-language10
openrc10
cprogramming-language10
platform-sdk10
file-dialog10
network-programming9
cmake9
sdl8
debugging7
debug7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Engineer
Back-end Developer & System EngineerContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 27 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Christian primarily worked on improving the file dialogs and related system calls for the OpenRCT2 project, which is a C++ re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. They improved the platform-specific implementations for file dialogs, especially on Linux, using zenity and kdialog. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to use more appropriate buffer sizes and added timestamps to chat messages within the network code.
re-implementationgamediscordc-plus-plussimulation
grimpunch/CardsAgainstOnline
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:85 commits, 1 PR, 66 pushes in 3 years
cards-against-humanitypythonflaskssemultiplayer
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