James Pritts
KiTE Research Fellow (Marie-Curie Funding Action) at Kiel University
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolJames Pritts is a research-focused computer vision scientist and engineer with 14 years of experience bridging academia and industry, currently a KiTE Research Fellow at Kiel University funded by a Marie-Curie Action. He holds a PhD from Czech Technical University and has led geometric calibration and 3D vision work at Facebook Reality Labs, CIIRC, and in defense-oriented scientific computing at BAE Systems. His research—recognized by ACCV and IVCNZ best paper awards—spans 3D geometry, pattern recognition, and machine learning, and he is an ELLIS Scholar noted for outstanding junior scientists. James has also brought vision prototypes to extreme environments, developing gesture-recognition software for NASA’s International Space Station, showing a knack for applying theory to high-stakes real-world systems. Based in Kiel, Germany, he combines rigorous academic leadership (helping establish a PhD program) with hands-on engineering across both research labs and operational projects.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Czech Technical University in PragueBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of North Texas
Github Skills (110)
language-server-protocol10
emacs-lsp10
swift10
javascript9
emacs9
golang9
julia9
angular9
science9
rust9
html9
powershell9
programming-language9
ruby9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
prittjam/prittjam.github.io
Aug 2020 - Jul 2026
Contributions:111 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
prittjam/mr
Jan 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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