Shunsuke Saito
Director, Research Scientist at Meta
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolShunsuke Saito is a research scientist and engineering leader with nine years of experience at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning, now serving as Director, Research Scientist at Meta. He earned a PhD from USC and has a strong track record of industry and academic internships (Adobe, Facebook AI Research, Pinscreen) that fed into seminal work on high-resolution 3D human digitization—contributing code and GPU headless rendering support to the influential PIFu repository. Known for bridging theory and production, he repeatedly turns complex geometry and rendering research into robust engineering solutions. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends deep academic grounding in image processing and physics-based animation with practical expertise in rendering pipelines and data processing.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Engineering (MEng), Image Processing, Physics-based Computer Animation, Master of Engineering (MEng), Image Processing, Physics-based Computer Animation at Waseda UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Japanese, English
Github Skills (9)
pytorch10
computer-graphics10
opengl10
python10
egl9
3d-printing8
3d-reconstruction8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/pifuhd
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 6 months
3d-modelsdeep-learningsingle-imageresolutioncomputer-vision
shunsukesaito/shunsukesaito.github.io
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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