Lars Vågnes
CEO at Simli
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Vågnes is a technology entrepreneur and CEO with eight years of hands-on experience building AI-driven media and interaction platforms. He has founded multiple startups (AI Mad Lab, Personate, Nesuku) and led ML/AI engineering as CTO at companies focused on music intelligence and therapeutic avatar-based exposure training. Currently he runs Simli, which delivers real-time AI avatar video interactions, combining research-grade neural network development with product and cloud operational experience. Lars’s background includes applied computer engineering work on deep learning for autonomous vehicles and a track record of shipping high-throughput ML systems on AWS and Google Cloud. He blends founder-level strategic vision with practical engineering—prototyping models, deploying pipelines, and even contributing to patent filings—bringing a rare mix of creative product thinking and implementation rigor.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
face-detection8
face-recognition8
api7
python7
machine-learning6
facial-recognition5
speaker4
mir4
voice3
sequence3
prosody3
face3
pytorch2
torchvision2
unsupervised-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
larsh0103/SSL_Experiement
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
larsh0103/Wav2Lip
May 2021 - Sep 2023
This repository contains the codes of "A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In the Wild", published at ACM Multimedia 2020.
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
acmlip-syncsynclipdeep-learning
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