Radek Daněček
Research Scientist at Google
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRadek Daněček is a research scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computer vision, graphics and machine learning, now working on the future of 3D digital humans at Google. He holds a PhD-level background from ETH Zürich and the Max Planck Institute, published his thesis at a top conference, and has repeatedly moved ideas from prototyping into production—most notably building real-time player detection and tracking systems at Vizrt. Radek blends deep academic rigor (multiple PhD and research roles, Disney Research and MPI) with hands-on engineering in C++ and CUDA, and a playful specialty in creating emotional 3D faces. Based in Tübingen, he thrives both as an independent researcher and as a collaborative product-minded engineer who bridges cutting-edge research with deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Max Planck SocietyBachelor's Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor's Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at ETH Zürich
Czech, English, German
Github Skills (95)
python10
emotion-recognition10
deep-learning10
face10
animation10
api10
face-alignment10
hyperparameter-tuning10
computer-vision10
3d-reconstruction10
3d-graphics10
data-science10
reinforcement-learning10
data-versioning10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
radekd91/emoca
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Official repository accompanying a CVPR 2022 paper EMOCA: Emotion Driven Monocular Face Capture And Animation. EMOCA takes a single image of a face as input and produces a 3D reconstruction. EMOCA sets the new standard on reconstructing highly emotional images in-the-wild
Contributions:2 releases, 1020 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
emotion-recognitionface-modelpytorch-lightningtakesface-alignment
radekd91/inferno
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
🔥🔥🔥 Set the world of 3D faces on fire with INFERNO 🔥🔥🔥
Contributions:1 release, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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