Joao Soares
Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoao Soares is a Senior Research Scientist in New York with nine years of industry experience specializing in computer vision and machine learning, currently leading research efforts at Yahoo. His work spans image and video analysis, media enrichment, and large-scale production systems for search and recommendation, with a track record of moving prototypes into CI/CD-backed deployments. He has deep academic roots—MS and PhD work focused on segmentation and shape analysis—and contributed to widely-used projects like the Leafsnap app and open-source retinal vessel segmentation tools. Comfortable across research and engineering, Joao blends algorithm design with practical data-processing experience (Storm, Hadoop) and has driven cross-functional features from model development to production analytics. An understated strength is his history of translating academic innovations into product-ready solutions that scale in real-world media environments.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Transferred to Univ. of Maryland, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Transferred to Univ. of Maryland at Penn State UniversityThe University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of São Paulo
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (6)
relation10
machine-learning8
transformer7
pytorch7
deep-learning7
development-kit2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/object_relation_transformer
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Implementation of the Object Relation Transformer for Image Captioning
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 7 months
pytorchdeep-learningimage-captioningmachine-learningtransformer
jvbsoares/object_relation_transformer
May 2020 - Sep 2024
Implementation of the Object Relation Transformer for Image Captioning
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
pytorchdeep-learningimage-captioningtransformerrelation
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