Pablo Palafox
Co-Founder & CEO at HappyRobot
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPablo Palafox is a PhD-trained computer vision and deep learning specialist with nine years of experience building research-driven products and teams at the intersection of 3D AI and robotics. As Co-Founder and CEO of HappyRobot in San Francisco, he now turns advanced vision models into AI voice agents and enterprise “AI workers” that automate complex tasks. His academic work at Technical University of Munich and internships at Meta/FRL focused on visual SLAM, sceneflow prediction, and 3D perception—skills he pairs with practical systems engineering from robotics projects and anti-drone systems. He brings rare cross-domain fluency, combining a conservatory-level music education (piano) with rigorous robotics and mechanical engineering training, which informs a creative, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Notably, he maintains a public project portfolio and demos online, emphasizing reproducible research and product-ready ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Degree in Music, Piano, Professional Degree in Music, Piano at Professional Music Conservatory Sebastián DurónDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision & Deep Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision & Deep Learning at Technical University of MunichThePowerMBA Future Leaders Program, Business Administration and Management, General, ThePowerMBA Future Leaders Program, Business Administration and Management, General at thePowerMaster of Science - MS, Robotics and Electronics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics and Electronics at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (71)
python10
depth-estimation10
validation10
pydantic-v210
segmentation10
depth10
siggraph9
computer-vision9
gpu9
semantic9
openai9
semantic-segmentation9
autonomous-driving8
deep-learning8
datasets8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DeformableFriends/NeuralTracking
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
Official implementation for the NeurIPS 2020 paper Neural Non-Rigid Tracking.
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 8 months
pytorchneurips-2020deep-learningneuripscomputer-vision
pablopalafox/npms
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Official implementation of NPMs: Neural Parametric Models for 3D Deformable Shapes - ICCV 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
pytorchiccvparametriccomputer-visionsiggraph
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