Stan Szymanowicz is a machine learning researcher and GenAI specialist with nine years of experience bridging top-tier academic research and industry labs, currently a PhD candidate at Oxford and a Visiting Researcher at Meta. A Cambridge MEng who topped his cohort, he has interned at Google and Microsoft and contributes practical engineering to high-impact vision projects—e.g., refactoring BARF NeRF code to improve multi-dataset compatibility. His work sits at the intersection of computer vision and generative models, guided by advisors Andrea Vedaldi and Christian Rupprecht. Known for clean, reproducible code and dataset engineering, he pairs deep theoretical training with hands-on system improvements that accelerate research-to-prototype cycles.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at III High School in Gdynia
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision and Machine Learning at University of Oxford
Mathematics - A*, Further Mathematics - A*, Computer Science - A*, Physics - A*, Mathematics - A*, Further Mathematics - A*, Computer Science - A*, Physics - A* at Dulwich College
Master of Engineering - MEng, Information and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Information and Computer Engineering at University of Cambridge
Scholar, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Scholar, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science at Krajowy Fundusz na rzecz Dzieci
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stan primarily focused on organizing and refactoring existing code related to training and evaluation within the BARF model. They wrapped the `train.py` and `evaluate.py` scripts within `main()` functions, improving the structure. Additionally, the user cloned the camera poses and intrinsics in the Blender, iPhone, and LLFF datasets, which is important for the model's performance. These changes suggest an effort to ensure the model is compatible with multiple datasets.
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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Stan Szymanowicz - Visiting Researcher at University of Oxford