Christopher Funk
Senior Research And Development Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Funk is a Senior R&D Engineer at Kitware with over a decade of experience applying machine learning to computer vision, holding a PhD in Computer Science from Penn State. He leads DARPA-funded projects (LwLL and SAIL-ON) that push state-of-the-art techniques in label-efficient domain adaptation, open-world novelty detection, and continual learning, collaborating with top academic partners and DARPA directly. Christopher’s work spans deep learning for 2D image understanding, geometric reconstruction, and long-sequence 3D motion-capture analysis, including early methods to infer foot pressure from video. He has published at CVPR and ICCV and created the official CVPR paper-visualization for 2020 and 2021, reflecting both research depth and community impact. Known for designing crowdsourced data collection workflows and rigorous quantitative evaluations, he combines academic rigor with practical systems development to tackle previously unsolved vision problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Franklin & Marshall CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0 at Pace University-New YorkDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (35)
face8
pose8
caffe7
computer-vision6
cpp6
paths6
pose-estimation5
deep-learning5
machine-vision5
human-pose-estimation5
machine-learning5
opencv5
utilities4
openpose4
face-detection4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cfunk1210/NovelDisaster
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
tinker-engine/tinker-rfcs
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:25 reviews, 31 comments, 1 issue in 7 days
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