Summary
Nikos Georgis is a camera and GPU-focused engineer with over two decades of deep experience in embedded systems, computer vision, and multimedia performance optimization, currently working at Qualcomm after a long tenure at Sony. He combines a PhD-grounded research mindset with a practical track record of productizing innovations—authoring 100+ patents and publications that span GPU acceleration, OpenCL, and system-level optimizations. At Sony he drove GPU-accelerated video workflows for Catalyst and Vegas Pro and architected performance and boot-speed improvements across VAIO platforms, including mobile and embedded TV solutions. Known internally as a "gpu freak," he excels at squeezing resources for high-throughput multimedia pipelines and has repeatedly turned prototypes into shipped features and cost-saving products. He brings rare cross-domain fluency from DSP and signal processing at Nokia to modern camera and video engineering, often pairing statistical and stochastic methods with pragmatic system design.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Vision and Imaging Processing, Ph.D, Computer Vision and Imaging Processing at University of Surrey
English