Silvio Giancola
Co-Founder CTO at Thya Technology
Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolSilvio Giancola is a Co-Founder and CTO with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, computer vision, and SportsTech, translating cutting-edge research into commercial products. At KAUST he led landmark projects like SoccerNet, advancing player tracking, action spotting, and game understanding, and now steers Thya Technology to deploy those capabilities in real-world sports analytics. Trained as a PhD mechanical engineer with deep roots in mechatronics and robotics, he brings hands-on expertise in 3D reconstruction, SLAM, and vision-driven robotic systems from industrial and academic settings. His background ranges from embedded robotic control and stereoscopic vision prototypes to metrological 3D analysis, giving him a rare blend of system-level engineering and algorithmic research. Based in Saudi Arabia, he actively seeks collaborations that bridge research innovation and product impact in AI-driven sports analytics. A detail not often highlighted: his early work in industrial vision and robotic automation informs the robust, production-ready focus of his current AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di MilanoMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at INSA Strasbourg
French, Italian, English
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Github Skills (119)
hugo-theme10
benchmark10
toolbox10
instance-segmentation10
vision-transformer10
faster-rcnn10
glip10
forestry10
openmmlab10
video-understanding10
mask-rcnn10
retinanet10
object-detection10
open-science10
netlify10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SilvioGiancola/CloudLabeling-API
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
SilvioGiancola/SoccerNet-code
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
SoccerNet: A Scalable Dataset for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 2 years 10 months
scalablevideosdatasetsoccer
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