Luca Ballan
Staff Research Engineer And Manager (TLM), Machine Learning at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLuca Ballan is a staff research engineer and manager at Google specializing in computer vision and machine learning for AR and mixed-reality systems, with a decade of industry experience spanning Google, Microsoft HoloLens, and Apple’s Special Projects Group. He brings deep expertise in 3D reconstruction, motion and hand capture, localization and change detection, and has a track record of translating academic research into deployed technologies. A former senior researcher at ETH Zurich and PhD from the University of Padua, Luca pioneered spatio-temporal 4D modeling and image-based localization methods used in telepresence and autonomous systems. He codes in C++ and Python and applies TensorFlow at scale, bridging research rigour with production engineering. Notably, he led a commercial player-tracking system used in top-level football early in his career, demonstrating an uncommon blend of product delivery and long-term scientific impact. Based in San Francisco, he combines leadership of ML teams with hands-on contributions to ARCore and other real-world perception stacks.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Vision, PhD, Computer Vision at Università degli Studi di PadovaVisiting PhD Student, Computer Vision, Visiting PhD Student, Computer Vision at ETH ZürichGithub contributions (5)
LucaBallan/PythonTradingPlatform
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
LucaBallan/ArticulatedPoseEstimator
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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