Mikaela Uy
Researcher at NVIDIA
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikaela Uy is a researcher and recent Stanford CS PhD graduate with a decade of experience bridging academic research and applied computer vision systems. Now at NVIDIA, she brings deep expertise in machine learning, robotics, and real-time vision—skills sharpened by building ROS-based ROV control software, underwater diver detection pipelines, and robotics research projects across HKUST and Stanford. Her background spans rigorous theoretical training and hands-on engineering, from AVR microcontroller programming to designing production-oriented vision tools. Having interned in quant trading tooling and developed SQL-backed systems earlier in her career, she pairs analytical rigor with practical product sensibilities. Colleagues describe her work as focused on translating complex research into deployable systems that operate reliably in constrained, real-world environments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Saint Jude Catholic SchoolMaster of Computing Computer Science, Master of Computing Computer Science at National University of SingaporeHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at ETH ZürichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, chinese (mandarin / putonghua), Filipino, Chinese, chinese (hokkien)
Github Skills (25)
classification-model10
retrieval9
point-cloud9
computer-vision8
classification8
scale8
large-scale8
benchmark8
pytorch7
pointnet7
deep-learning7
segmentation6
machine-learning6
geometry-processing5
caffe5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hkust-vgd/scanobjectnn
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Code for Revisiting Point Cloud Classification: A New Benchmark Dataset and Classification Model on Real-World Data, ICCV 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 months
pytorchiccviccv-2019deep-learningdataset
mikacuy/pointnetvlad
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pytorchplacedeep-learningrecognitioncomputer-vision
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