Nicola Garau
Assistant Professor (RTDa) at Università di Trento
Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Garau is an assistant professor and computer vision researcher at the University of Trento with a decade of experience spanning academia and industry. His PhD work on viewpoint-equivariant networks advanced robust human pose estimation, and he has applied those skills in research roles at Epic Games and an OpenPose porting internship at Carnegie Mellon. He combines deep technical expertise—GPU pipelines, CapsNets, and real-time video stitching—with practical product-oriented engineering from roles building digital assistants and tactical sports cameras. Beyond research, Nicola has strong community engagement as co-organizer of Unity User Group and Global Game Jam chapters in Trento, bridging research, teaching, and developer communities. He teaches master’s level computer vision and multimedia courses, mentoring students while leading applied research projects. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on researcher who moves models from theory into performant, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision, Excellent, cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision, Excellent, cum laude at Università di TrentoBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 110L/110, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 110L/110 at Università degli Studi di CagliariHigh School, Sciences, High School, Sciences at Second Level College of ScienceMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 110L/110, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 110L/110 at Università degli Studi di Trento
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Github Skills (77)
opencv10
image-processing10
pose10
human-pose-estimation10
deep-learning10
cpp10
face10
caffe10
computer-vision10
openpose10
keypoint10
pose-estimation10
machine-learning9
autoencoder8
rendering8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
A7ocin/amm2015
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:147 commits, 150 pushes in 15 days
A7ocin/PPOL
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
PPOL is a crowd simulator based on Unity's ML Agents and using PPO Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
ml-agentsreinforcement-learning
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