Dotan Knaan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Samsung Research America
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDotan Knaan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with over 20 years of experience turning hard computer-vision and medical-imaging research into real-world products across Israel, the US, Japan, and Switzerland. He specializes in AR/VR, real-time video analysis, SLAM, and image-processing pipelines, delivering scene understanding, head-tracking, and distortion correction at Samsung Research America. A proven builder—from a medical-image registration prototype used clinically to co-founding a driver-drowsiness startup—he blends rigorous academic training (MSc in Medical Imaging) with hands-on mobile and embedded engineering. Dotan is also a practical open-source contributor to VR tooling (notably GearVRf), focused on texture and image-loading performance improvements that reduce crashes in Android VR apps. Known for turning complex algorithms into robust, usable systems, he brings creativity, consistency, and a global collaboration mindset to large-scale CV projects.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, MSc., Medical Imaging, Computer Vision at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (7)
javas10
texture10
texturing10
opengl-es10
resource-loading10
android10
java10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Samsung/GearVRf
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
The GearVR framework(GearVRf) is an Open Source VR rendering library for application development on VR-supported Android devices.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 36 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dotan implemented several updates to the `GearVRf` framework, primarily focusing on texture handling and image loading within the Android environment. They added functionality to efficiently update 2D textures, introduced a method to load textures from resources, and corrected an issue where the application would crash when an asset was missing. Further commits involved updating the Gamepad sample app, and correcting platform support. These changes indicate a focus on improving the performance and functionality of the VR rendering library.
oculus-questvirtual-realityandroid-devicessupportedandroid
dknaan/GearVRf
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
virtual-realityandroid-devicessupportedandroidrendering
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