Ismail Elezi
Principal Research Scientist Tech Lead at Huawei
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIsmail Elezi is a Principal Research Scientist and Tech Lead at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab London with 11 years of experience advancing computer vision and multi-modal learning. He leads a multi-modality team and has driven research across knowledge distillation, long-tail detection, 3D reconstruction and diffusion models, with publications in top CV and ML venues (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/tPAMI). Previously a postdoc at TUM, his work spans metric learning, active and semi-supervised learning, open-world detection and generative models, and he has industry experience from Nvidia and Argo AI. He earned a PhD split between Venice and Zurich focusing on contextual information, and consistently contributes to peer review—earning outstanding reviewer awards at CVPR and ICCV. Ismail is open to mentoring top-tier first-author interns and is actively interested in LLMs and visual LLM work, reflecting a rare mix of deep academic rigor and product-facing research exposure. An underrated detail: he keeps hands-on engineering roots (internships and applied projects) while steering high-level research strategy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning/Computer Vision, Honors, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning/Computer Vision, Honors at Ca' Foscari University of VeniceBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Prishtina
English, Albanian, Italian
Github Skills (43)
dcgan10
image-translation10
generative-adversarial-network10
computer-graphics10
image-manipulation10
cyclegan10
computer-vision9
translation9
pytorch9
statistics9
deep-learning9
python8
watershed8
image-generation8
pytorch-lightning8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dvl-tum/group_loss
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
TheRevanchist/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 1 month
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