Janne Kontkanen
Research Staff at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJanne Kontkanen is a research engineer with 13 years of experience at the intersection of computer graphics and AI, currently driving foundational work on generative video at Google DeepMind. Previously he led large-scale graphics architecture and stereoscopic 360 rendering at Google, and earlier engineered core production rendering systems at PDI/DreamWorks—work that earned an Academy Technical Achievement Award for deep image compositing. He holds a PhD in computer graphics and co-founded a university research group in Helsinki, blending academic rigor with production-grade software design. Janne’s career shows a pattern of turning core research into widely used products—from movie visual effects to planetary-scale mapping and consumer camera features—while focusing on democratizing filmmaking with AI. An often-overlooked thread is his knack for inventing foundational algorithms (ray tracing acceleration, parallel particle rendering) that scale from research prototypes to global services.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Graphics, PhD, Computer Graphics at Aalto University
Github Skills (13)
duplicate5
near4
moments4
stereo3
depth-estimation3
kitti-dataset3
siggraph3
optical-flow3
neural-rendering2
closure2
computer-vision2
pytorch2
plovr1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
augmentedperception/pixelfusion
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 3 months
jkontkanen/astrophotography
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:14 pushes in 27 days
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