Jeff Smith
Senior Research Engineer at NVIDIA
Duvall, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Smith is a Senior Research Engineer with over a decade building systems that generate, analyze, and manipulate 3D data for film, games, AR, and robotics. At NVIDIA he researches computer vision, robotic perception, and deep learning models that reconstruct the three-dimensional world from noisy, incomplete imagery, translating cutting-edge research into deployable systems on NVIDIA hardware. His background includes developing simulation, modeling, and artist-facing animation tools at ILM, Valve, and Softimage, and prototyping vision and deep learning experiences for HoloLens at Microsoft. Jeff holds advanced degrees in robotics and electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon, Rice, and Yale, and blends rigorous academic training with production-grade engineering across graphics, physics-based simulation, and perception. A less obvious strength is his long history of applying nonlinear optimization and learned models to bridge physical simulation and data-driven perception, enabling realistic reconstruction and navigation in ambiguous environments.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering at Rice UniversityB.Sc., Electrical Engineering, B.Sc., Electrical Engineering at Yale UniversityM.Sc., Robotics, M.Sc., Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
French
Github Skills (24)
pose10
computer-vision9
ros9
rgb9
object-detection9
pose-estimation8
inference8
pytorch8
deep-learning7
keypoint5
human-pose-estimation4
scene4
robotics3
encoder3
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NVlabs/CenterPose
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Single-Stage Keypoint-based Category-level Object Pose Estimation from an RGB Image (ICRA 2022)
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 6 days
pytorchstageobject-pose-estimationrgb-imagedeep-learning
nv-jeff/pytorch
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 days
pythongpu-accelerationdeep-learninggpuacceleration
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