Nelson 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 Toronto
Engineer's degree Engenharia de Computação, Engineer's degree Engenharia de Computação at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD 3D Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD 3D Computer Vision at Simon Fraser University
House-GAN: Relational Generative Adversarial Networks for Graph-constrained House Layout Generation
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pytorchhouserelationaldeep-learningadversarial
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Nelson Nauata - Senior Video Machine Learning Engineer at Apple