Garrick Orchard
Research Scientist at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrick Orchard is a research scientist in New York with a decade of experience developing bio-inspired architectures and algorithms for sensing and vision. His career spans academia and industry—from a lengthy postdoctoral fellowship at the National University of Singapore to research roles at Intel Labs and his current position at Meta—bridging fundamental neuroscience-inspired ideas with applied systems research. He holds a PhD and MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, grounding his work in rigorous theory and hardware-aware practice. Known for translating biological principles into efficient computational models, he brings a rare combination of theoretical depth and product-facing research that informs next-generation sensing and visual computation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering at University of Cape TownJohns Hopkins University
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (22)
matlab9
lava9
python8
pytorch7
optical-flow7
ieee7
deep-learning7
computer-vision7
lattice6
fpga5
tensorflow5
machine-learning5
face5
plane4
neural-network4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gorchard/Spiking_Motion
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Matlab code for a Spiking Neural Network for Visual Motion Estimation
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
matlabmotionestimationmotion-estimationneural-network
gorchard/Matlab_AER_vision_functions
Sep 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 8 months
matlabvisioncommonlycomputer-visionmatlab-functions
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