Nelson Nauata
Senior Video Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Nauata is a Senior Video Machine Learning Engineer based in San Diego with 11 years blending academic research and product-grade ML for 2D/3D computer vision. Currently at Apple, he progressed from shipping ML-based real-time hand gesture recognition and WWDC-presented camera effects to a senior role driving video ML features across iOS and macOS. He holds a PhD in 3D Computer Vision and has research and internship experience at Meta, Autodesk, Twitch, and MIT, bringing deep expertise in geometry-aware reconstruction and real-time video understanding. Nelson’s background spans end-to-end systems from large-scale medical-slide inference to lightweight, on-device models—an uncommon combination that informs robust, latency-sensitive production deployments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Ciência da Computação, Computer Science Ciência da Computação at University of TorontoEngineer's degree Engenharia de Computação, Engineer's degree Engenharia de Computação at Universidade Estadual de CampinasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD 3D Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD 3D Computer Vision at Simon Fraser University
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (35)
generative-adversarial-network10
graph9
python8
face-generation8
machine-learning8
autoencoder8
gpu7
deep-learning7
neural-network6
stylegan6
generative-model5
gesture-recognition5
numpy5
caffe5
text-to-image5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ennauata/buildings2vec
Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
Vectorizing World Buildings
Contributions:51 commits, 38 pushes, 4 comments in 1 year 3 months
cooperlab/CellNet
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:81 commits, 88 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
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