Forrester Cole
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolForrester Cole is a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience at the intersection of computer graphics, vision, and machine learning, focused recently on 3D understanding from images and video. He progressed from software engineer roles through senior and staff positions at Google, bringing production-grade engineering rigor to research problems informed by earlier postdoctoral work at MIT and Pixar. His background blends deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton—with practical engineering leadership at companies like Onshape, enabling him to bridge novel algorithms and scalable systems. Based in Cambridge, MA, he is known for translating cutting-edge research into deployable software and for a career path that uniquely spans animation research, commercial CAD engineering, and large-scale ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Harvard CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (44)
mesh10
python10
data-science10
statistics10
machine-learning10
automatic-differentiation10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-analysis10
pytorch9
autodiff9
ml9
scikit9
composable9
scikit-learn9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/mannequinchallenge
May 2019 - Sep 2020
Inference code and trained models for "Learning the Depths of Moving People by Watching Frozen People."
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pytorchdeep-learninginferencefrozenmachine-learning
google/tf_mesh_renderer
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
A differentiable, 3D mesh renderer using TensorFlow.
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 5 months
meshdifferentiablepythonrenderertensorflow
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