Summary
Colin Brown is a senior computer vision scientist and manager with eight years of industry experience and a PhD in Medical Image Analysis, currently leading a 12-person cross-functional research team at Hinge Health in Montreal. He directs CV research strategy, drives product uptake of academic advances, and has co-authored multiple patents while securing academic-industry partnerships such as an NSERC Alliance grant. His background spans medical imaging, novel CNN architectures and loss functions for small datasets, and practical ML tooling—skills honed through research roles at Simon Fraser and BC Cancer and product work at wrnch. Colin combines rigorous publication and citation pedigree with hands-on engineering experience dating back to game and systems development at EA, enabling him to translate research into production-ready solutions. He also has experience producing SR&ED research tax credit reports and leading ML data annotation and tooling efforts, an uncommon blend of technical, managerial and operational expertise.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computing Science - Medical Image Analysis, PhD, Computing Science - Medical Image Analysis at Simon Fraser University
EC Drury High School
BMath, Honours, Co-op, Computer Science, BMath, Honours, Co-op, Computer Science at University of Waterloo