Summary
Nicolai 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.
8 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 Engineering
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, German, French