Nicolai Häni
Senior Computer Vision Researcher at Magic Leap
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolai Häni is a Senior Computer Vision Researcher with eight years of experience building generative AI and 3D perception systems, currently advancing AR applications at Magic Leap. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and has a track record spanning academic research, industrial internships at Samsung, and engineering roles at Pix4D that focused on large-scale photogrammetry and point-cloud classification. His expertise bridges neural scene representations, neural rendering, and robotics, with practical work on single-view reconstruction, novel view synthesis, and visual servoing for robotic platforms. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines rigor from his doctoral research with hands-on production experience in spatial computing, and maintains an active project and publications portfolio on his website and GitHub.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Systems Engineering at ZHAW School of EngineeringUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, German, French
Github Skills (28)
computer-graphics10
computer-vision9
keras8
segmentation8
benchmark7
mask7
object-detection7
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
mask-rcnn4
instance-segmentation4
faster-rcnn4
correspondence2
python2
signed2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nicolaihaeni/MinneApple
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
A Benchmark Dataset for Apple Detection and Segmentation
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 1 month
benchmarkdatasetapplesegmentation
nicolaihaeni/gaussian-splatting
Jul 2023 - Apr 2024
Original reference implementation of "3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering"
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
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