Florian Spiess
Machine Learning Engineer at Huawei Ireland Research Center
Greater Dublin Ireland
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Top SchoolFlorian Spiess is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience at the intersection of virtual reality, AI and biomedical applications, newly based in Greater Dublin. He holds a summa cum laude PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Basel and has transitioned academic research into industry roles, including a recent postdoc and a PhD internship at Roche focused on passive sensor analytics with deep learning for clinical studies. Florian combines strong theoretical grounding in computer vision and probabilistic modelling with practical software development for scientific studies and medical data pipelines. At Huawei Ireland Research Center he now applies this blend of skills to production-scale ML problems, informed by prior work developing morphable models and mentoring in open-source projects. Colleagues know him for tackling complex problems with creative solutions and a steady drive to learn new tools and domains.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 5.7/6.0, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 5.7/6.0 at Universität BaselDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Summa cum laude at University of Basel
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Github Skills (62)
retrieval10
openvr10
java10
oculus-quest10
textual10
audio10
3d-models10
query-by-example10
oculus10
unity3d10
presenter9
searching9
virtual-reality9
3d9
vector-space9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vitrivr/vitrivr-vr
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
vitrivr-VR is a virtual reality interface for the vitrivr multimedia retrieval system.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 342 commits in 2 years 5 months
oculus-questrealityvirtual-realitymultimedia-retrievalopenvr
dres-dev/UnityClient
Mar 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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