Otniel-bogdan Mercea
Machine Learning Researcher at Apple
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolOtniel-bogdan Mercea is a Machine Learning Researcher with 8 years of experience, currently advancing multimodal learning at Apple after research stints at Google Research and DeepMind focused on efficient adaptation and video segmentation. He holds a PhD from the Max Planck/University of Tübingen program and an MSc in AI from Edinburgh, and has contributed to CVPR-highlighting work, a patent, and multiple preprints on adapting large-scale models. His research blends data- and model-efficient methods for low-shot learning, audio-visual multimodality, video semantic segmentation, and tracking, with practical outcomes including amodal-enhanced SAM and multi-camera tracking patents. Based in Barcelona, he combines academic rigor with industry impact across top labs, and unusually for a researcher, has repeatedly translated research into patents and production-ready improvements.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Distinction (76% overall), Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Distinction (76% overall) at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Max Planck SocietyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of TuebingenBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computers and Information technology, Top 3% (Overall 9.70/10), Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computers and Information technology, Top 3% (Overall 9.70/10) at Politehnica University of Timisoara
Romanian, English
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Github Skills (36)
asynchronous10
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mysql-cluster10
percona10
mysql10
othello10
kubernetes-operator10
mysql-replication10
monte-carlo-tree-search10
operator10
data-science9
reinforcement-learning9
kubernetes9
pytorch9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MerceaOtniel/Pw
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
ExplainableML/AVCA-GZSL
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
This repository contains the code for our CVPR 2022 paper on "Audio-visual Generalised Zero-shot Learning with Cross-modal Attention and Language"
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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