Mark Buckler
Resident Expert (AI House) at AI2 Incubator
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMark Buckler is an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and hardware-aware engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end systems at the intersection of generative AI, computer vision, and hardware acceleration. He holds a PhD from Cornell where his thesis on hardware-accelerated deep learning for vision informed production work at Amazon (robot perception) and technology transfer into industry. As founder of three companies including Soundry AI, he shipped a state-of-the-art text-to-sound generator that bridges deep learning research and real creative workflows for music producers. At AI2’s Incubator he advises founders on foundational model training, generative audio, and accelerator-aware model design, combining deep technical breadth with startup and fundraising experience. His background spans VLSI and architecture (AMD, UMass) to open research in diffusion/GAN audio, reflecting a rare ability to co-design algorithms and the hardware that runs them. Outside work he channels the same creative engineering mindset into DJing and producing electronic music, a practical proving ground for his audio ML work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (37)
youtube10
hardware10
voc10
tensorboard10
mobilenet10
coco10
resnet10
image-processing9
matlab9
python9
face-recognition9
optical-flow9
object-detection9
computer-vision9
faster-rcnn8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cucapra/approx-vision
Apr 2016 - Jul 2019
Designing image processing hardware and software for computer vision
Contributions:207 commits, 6 pushes, 9 comments in 3 years 3 months
computer-visionhardwareimage-processing
mbuckler/youtube-bb
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Public repo for helpful scripts when using the YouTube Bounding Boxes dataset
Contributions:92 commits, 4 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 4 months
youtube
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