James Miller
Chief Scientist - Computer Vision - Research at GE Aerospace
Town of Clifton Park, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Miller is a seasoned computer vision and AI leader with over 20 years of experience translating research into deployed solutions across healthcare, aerospace, industrial inspection, remote sensing, and additive manufacturing. As Chief Scientist at GE Aerospace he shapes vision and AI strategy, builds technical teams, and ensures rigorous technology transfer from lab to product. His work spans robotics, laser inspection, CT and ultrasound-guided procedures, and on-wing aircraft engine visual inspection, and he has a rare blend of deep academic training (PhD RPI) and long-term industrial research leadership at GE. A longstanding open-source contributor, he’s helped evolve foundational medical imaging toolkits such as ITK, VTK, and 3D Slicer, reflecting a commitment to reproducible research and interoperable tooling. Notably, roughly half his career has been funded by NIH and DOD programs, demonstrating sustained success in competitive, mission-driven research.
19 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Vision, PhD, Computer Vision at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (8)
itk10
image-analysis10
medical-imaging10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
scientific-computing10
image-processing10
open-source9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK
Aug 2010 - Oct 2014
Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James focused on modifying and enhancing the `itk` library's internal functionalities. They implemented a new API for setting and getting masks for image processing, adding features to `itkMaskImageFilter.h`. The user also contributed to refactoring and improving the `Statistics` module, particularly the `MahalanobisDistanceMembershipFunction` and `GaussianMembershipFunction` classes. In addition, they were involved in cleaning up and refactoring the `DecisionRules` component, including updating documentation and class structure.
pythonitkcomputer-visionopen-sciencescientific
BrainMeasurement/MultiAtlas
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
technique3d-sliceratlasunc3d-slicer-extension
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