Mark Mcdonnell
Senior Principal Engineer (Computer Vision And AI) at Athlete's AI
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Mcdonnell is a Senior Principal Engineer specializing in computer vision and applied AI with 25 years working with data and a particular depth in images, video and audio. He bridges research and production, using MLOps and domain collaboration to deliver AI tools across sports, health, space, agriculture, mining and manufacturing. A former ARC Australian Research Fellow and Associate Professor, he has published over 100 papers and holds a granted patent focused on making learning algorithms more efficient and hardware-aware. As CTO and co-founder of Athlete's AI and current engineering lead at Lunio, he blends startup pragmatism with academic rigour to move prototypes into real-world products. He also continues to mentor and teach via adjunct roles at multiple universities, reflecting a long-term commitment to capacity building in ML. Less obvious: his background spans astrophysics to electronic engineering, giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and systems-level practicality.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic Engineering and Applied Mathematics at University of AdelaideMaster of Science - MS, Astrophysics, Master of Science - MS, Astrophysics at University of Southern Queensland
Github Skills (4)
residual-networks10
image-classification8
classification5
pre-trained-model4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
McDonnell-Research-Lab/1-bit-per-weight
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Training wide residual networks for deployment using a single bit for each weight - Official Code Repository for ICLR 2018 Published Paper
Contributions:43 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
residual-networksimage-classificationquantized-neural-networks
cls-lab/cls-lab.github.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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