Logan Engstrom
Member Of The Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLogan Engstrom is a machine learning and computer vision researcher-engineer with 12 years of experience, currently a Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI after completing a PhD at MIT CSAIL. He has authored 15+ papers in top ML conferences with multiple major paper awards and produced two first-author RL papers during a Two Sigma internship. Logan blends research rigor with product-minded engineering—contributing full-stack vision work that turns a MacBook into a touchscreen and front-end pieces for a popular Chrome history-search extension. His background spans industry research internships at Google and Apple and applied bioinformatics work as an undergrad, reflecting a knack for transferring ML ideas across domains. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep academic credentials with hands-on open-source contributions and production-focused implementation.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Github Skills (13)
computer-vision10
opencv10
javascript10
chrome-extension10
python10
chrome-app10
chrome-plugin10
image-processing10
browser-extension10
touchscreen10
calibration9
web-development9
nlp8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lengstrom/falcon
Jun 2016 - May 2020
Chrome extension for full text history search!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Logan's contributions focused on developing the front-end components of a Chrome extension for full-text history search. They implemented the initial structure of the extension, added a content script for page content retrieval, and integrated basic functionality. Further development included integrating stop words. The user also addressed bugs related to vector methods within the javascript libraries.
full-textchromehistory-searchsearchchrome-extension
bijection/sistine
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Turn a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Logan contributed significantly to the "sistine" project, which focuses on turning a MacBook into a touchscreen. They primarily worked on computer vision components, integrating OpenCV for tasks like finger detection and calibration. The user also made changes to the main application logic, which included implementing touch point detection and system coordinate transformations. Furthermore, they incorporated a mechanism for simulating mouse actions based on the detected touch input.
macoshardwaremacbooktouchscreensistine
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