James Smith
Research Assistant at University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Smith is a research-focused software engineer and PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley with 11 years of experience bridging interactive systems, computer vision, and gameplay programming. He has led HCI-driven research projects—ranging from real-time 360° object detection and sonification for spatial awareness (CHI 2018) to drone visual odometry and sensor-fusion experiments—while applying production-grade engineering from his earlier console game development roles. Comfortable across ROS, OpenCV, YOLO, and SLAM pipelines, he blends rigorous academic methods with pragmatic system-building to prototype novel human–computer interactions. Based in Berkeley, he brings a rare mix of multimedia/animation background and low-level game-engine expertise to research problems, often focusing on perceptual design and real-time embedded sensing.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyAAA, Animation, AAA, Animation at The Art InstitutesComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Sierra College
Github Skills (19)
hook9
grand-theft-auto8
scripting8
sparkfun7
convolutional-neural-networks6
translate5
graph5
dotnet5
image-processing5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
keras4
tensorflow4
object-detection4
darknet3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jamesdsmith/website
Apr 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
jamesdsmith/spectrum-analyzer
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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