Leonid Pishchulin
Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLeonid Pishchulin is a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and production ML systems. He earned a PhD-level research background from the Max Planck Institute, where he advanced articulated human pose estimation, 3D human shape modeling, and activity recognition from monocular video. At Amazon since 2015 he progressed from Applied Scientist to Principal, translating cutting-edge computer vision research into scalable applications. Leonid combines deep probabilistic and geometric modeling expertise with practical experience in learning from synthetic data, a less obvious strength that helps tackle scarce-label problems in human-centric vision. Based in Seattle, he brings both rigorous research instincts and product-focused delivery to complex perception challenges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Max Planck SocietyMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at RWTH Aachen UniversityNational University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys)
English, German, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (68)
pose10
human-computer-interaction10
mutation10
evaluation10
portable9
julia9
computer-vision9
dataflow9
dep9
python9
mxnet9
gpu9
deep-learning9
mobile-devices9
compression9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
leonid-pishchulin/poseval
Aug 2017 - Oct 2020
Evaluation of multi-person pose estimation and tracking
Contributions:2 reviews, 38 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 1 month
person-pose-estimationpersondeep-learningevaluationcomputer-vision
leonid-pishchulin/humanshape
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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