Michael Gygli
Research Scientist in AI at Cerrion
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMichael Gygli is a Research Scientist in AI with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge research and production systems, currently leading applied research on search architecture at Zalando. He designs and ships multimodal and generative AI solutions—most recently a CLIP-based neural retrieval system that increased high-value search actions by 20% and an optimized LLM assistant—delivering measurable A/B-tested gains in engagement and latency. A former YC co-founder and CTO of Cerrion, he built a real-time video analytics pipeline and grew the engineering team while commercializing CV solutions for manufacturing. His background includes research roles at Google Zurich and a PhD in Computer Vision from ETH Zurich with 30+ publications and 3.4k+ citations, reflecting deep technical credibility. Michael combines product-focused engineering with academic rigor, uniquely fluent in moving vision-language research from papers into robust, scalable production.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Vision, Master, Computer Vision at Université Nice Sophia AntipolisPhD, Computer Vision, PhD, Computer Vision at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichInformatik, Informatik at Berner Fachhochschule BFHY CombinatorMaster thesis, Computer Vision, Master thesis, Computer Vision at ETH ZürichInformatiker EFZ, Software development, Informatiker EFZ, Software development at GIBB
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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10answers
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tensorflow
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neural-network
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Github Skills (44)
python10
animation10
data-science10
expressions10
video-processing10
machine-learning10
ffmpeg10
gif10
ml10
lasagne10
video-editing10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gyglim/video2gif_code
Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 3 pushes, 10 comments in 3 years 3 months
neural-network
gifs/personalized-highlights-dataset
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
A dataset with user created GIFs
Contributions:8 commits in 8 months
user-createddatasetgifs
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