Samuel Black
Senior Data Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Black is a Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech with a PhD in Computer Science from Temple University and five years of experience building production-ready computer vision systems. His graduate work powered the TraffickCam web application used by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, where he engineered distributed training pipelines on datasets of over 10 million images and integrated SOTA hybrid CNN/Transformer models into Flask-based retrieval services. He has published methods for multi-view classification, visualizing transformer-based image similarity, and improving censored-image retrieval accuracy, and continues to advance few-shot, parts-focused learning under review for CVPR. Equally comfortable in research and production, he has experience across AWS-backed deployment, continuous delivery, and applied software engineering from consultancy and internship roles. Based in Philadelphia, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic system-building and a track record of translating complex vision research into tools that aid real-world investigations.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Temple UniversityMasters of Science, Computer Science, 3.93, Masters of Science, Computer Science, 3.93 at Villanova UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics at Oberlin College
English
Github Skills (10)
mscoco7
imagenet5
object-detection5
semantic-segmentation5
windows4
image-classification4
vision-transformer4
transformer3
swin-transformer2
mask-rcnn2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sblack15/CensoredImageQueries
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
vidarlab/xformer-paired-viz
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Official code repository for the WACV 2022 paper "Visualizing Paired Image Similarity in Transformer Networks"
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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