Sean Bell
Member Of Technical Staff at Resolve AI
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Bell is a research-driven AI engineer and leader with 11+ years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems, from founding GrokStyle to directing Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. He specializes in data-centric LLM pretraining—datamix optimization, curation, scaling laws and synthetic data—across modalities including code, vision, audio and video. Sean has a track record of taking research into product impact, previously leading GenAI monetization and product recognition at Meta and commercializing visual search as GrokStyle’s CEO. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell where he developed large-scale crowdsourcing, convnet architectures and material recognition methods that informed later products. Based in Redwood City, he blends deep technical rigor with startup founder instincts and a practical focus on the single largest lever for model performance: training data. An interesting throughline is his early patent-work and tooling background, which underpin a rare fluency in both intellectual property and scalable ML systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, High School, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma at The York SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor's Degree, Engineering Science, Bachelor's Degree, Engineering Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (46)
pytorch10
caffe10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
surface10
forestry9
nvidia-docker9
mask9
cuda8
menu8
nvidia8
docker-run8
crowdsourcing7
gpu7
pipeline7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
seanbell/opensurfaces
Feb 2015 - May 2018
Crowdsourcing pipeline and website for OpenSurfaces [SIG '13] and Intrinsic Images in the Wild [SIG '14]
Contributions:7 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
pipelinesigwildforestrysurface
seanbell/opensurfaces-segmentation-ui
Jan 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
computer-visionsegmentation
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