Stanislav Pidhorskyi is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at West Virginia University specializing in computer vision, generative models, and novelty/anomaly detection, with 11 years of engineering and research experience. He transitioned from a production-focused game development career—where he implemented advanced graphics techniques like LiSPSM shadow mapping and text/shaping support using HarfBuzz at Gameloft—into machine learning research, blending low-level graphics expertise with probabilistic modeling. Stanislav has hands-on ML engineering experience contributing to public generative model code (e.g., improvements to ALAE's VAE and style-based layers) and interned at AWS Rekognition, signaling applied industry familiarity with vision systems. His background in aerospace mechanics and long-standing software development experience give him a strong foundation in numerical methods and performance-conscious implementation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at West Virginia University
Master's Degree, Dynamics and Strength of Machines, Master's Degree, Dynamics and Strength of Machines at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
Contributions:292 commits, 5 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Stanislav's commits primarily focus on modifications to the VAE (Variational Autoencoder) and related files, particularly `VAE.py` and `net.py`, suggesting a focus on implementing and refining the autoencoder architecture. The changes include modifications to the loss function, the introduction of style-based layers, and integration with a discriminator. This indicates the user is actively involved in improving and experimenting with the autoencoder, possibly for image generation or related tasks.
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches, 4 tags in 5 years 3 months
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Stanislav Pidhorskyi - Graduate Research Assistant