Marx Melencio
Lead AI Strategist
Metro Manila, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolMarx Melencio is a resilient technology leader and founder with over two decades of entrepreneurial and AI engineering experience, currently serving as Lead AI Strategist at Theoria Medical and leading assistive vision research at ARIA Research. Blind since founding Grayscale in 2005, he built a multilingual digital marketing and telesales company from a spare bedroom into a remote-first business serving SE Asia and the EU, and later spun off VIsION AI Labs to commercialize assistive computer vision. His work bridges deep learning, embedded computer vision, IoT and decentralized tech—practicalized in wearable sensory augmentation for the blind and AI-enabled healthcare workflows. Recognized by the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship and awarded national R&D grants, he blends hands-on prototyping (TensorFlow, OpenVINO, OpenCV) with strategic productization and capacity-building for blind communities.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of the Philippines Diliman
English, German, Filipino, Japanese
Github Skills (38)
neural-style-transfer8
speech-synthesis8
variational-autoencoder8
autoencoder8
speech8
synthesis7
machine-learning7
probot7
python7
spatial6
computer-vision6
depthai6
tensorflow6
paper6
text-to-speech6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MXGray/VIsION
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
This aims to provide visually impaired users with an affordable wearable AI solution for their day-to-day activities.
Contributions:3 releases, 68 commits, 66 pushes in 7 months
affordablevisually-impaireddeep-learningcomputer-visionmachine-learning
MXGray/SPIGN
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 16 days
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