Luiz Hafemann
Senior Research Scientist at Epic Games
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuiz Hafemann is a Senior Research Scientist with 13 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and computer graphics, currently advancing real-time character technology at Epic Games after leading R&D at Ubisoft La Forge. He specializes in face capture, controllable generative models, and disentangled facial animation, turning novel research into production-ready tools and pipelines for video games. Luiz combines a strong academic foundation (PhD-level research) with industry experience across startups and large enterprises, including Sportlogiq and ExxonMobil, enabling practical solutions to production challenges. He routinely supervises and recruits graduate researchers, signaling a collaborative approach that bridges mentorship and high-impact applied research. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of shipping methods tailored specifically for real-time constraints, not just benchmark improvements.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at École de technologie supérieureMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Portuguese, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
nvidia-docker10
paddle10
python10
image-processing10
machine-learning10
audio-processing10
building-blocks10
classifier10
signature10
signature-pad10
ensemble-learning10
classifiers10
representations10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
luizgh/sigver_wiwd
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Learned representation for Offline Handwritten Signature Verification. Models and code to extract features from signature images.
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
representationgenerationsignature-padlearnedsignature
luizgh/intro_to_cnns
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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