Or Perel
Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOr Perel is a research scientist with 11 years of experience building and optimizing 3D deep learning and computer vision systems, currently at NVIDIA Toronto after prior roles at AWS Rekognition and Autodesk. He blends a strong academic foundation from Tel Aviv University with hands-on engineering across graphics, rendering, and neural fields, contributing back-end improvements to notable open-source projects like NVIDIA Kaolin Wisp. His work focuses on core functionality and performance—refactoring raymarching, interpolation, and acceleration-structure APIs—to make neural field pipelines more robust and efficient. Based in Israel, he brings rare cross-domain expertise from embedded and defense software to large-scale AI research, pairing production-grade engineering with research-driven innovation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityMamram Graduate (IDF Programming School)
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (5)
pytorch10
deep-learning10
sdf10
3d10
python9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIAGameWorks/kaolin-wisp
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
NVIDIA Kaolin Wisp is a PyTorch library powered by NVIDIA Kaolin Core to work with neural fields (including NeRFs, NGLOD, instant-ngp and VQAD).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 38 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Or primarily contributed to the `nvidiagameworks/kaolin-wisp` repository by modifying and refining existing code within the project. The commits focused on fixing indentation issues, adding default color options for sparse point clouds (SPCs), and refactoring the raymarching and interpolation output to streamline the SDF pipeline. The user also updated the API for grids and acceleration structures. These changes focused on core functionality and optimization of the library.
nvidiapytorch3d-deep-learningnerfsdf
orperel/LaplacianMeshEditing
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:25 commits in 2 years 2 months
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