Taein Kwon
Research Scientist at Meta
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolTaein Kwon is a research scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of egocentric vision, action recognition, and multi-modal learning, currently working at Meta after a postdoctoral stint at Oxford and a PhD from ETH Zürich. His work spans hand-object interaction, self-supervised and visual-language models, and practical AR/VR systems—blending rigorous academic research with industry-focused internships at Meta and Microsoft. He has a track record of building embodied and temporal perception models (including VR navigation and gesture systems) and applying depth estimation and wearable-sensor analysis to real-world problems. Notably, his background includes founding a ML-driven startup that won multiple innovation awards, reflecting a rare combination of research depth and product-minded entrepreneurship.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ph.D. at ETH ZürichUniversity of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Yonsei University
Korean, English
Github Skills (51)
rendering9
computer-graphics9
cpp8
arm8
cuda8
mesh-processing8
azure-machine-learning8
volume-rendering8
odometry8
kinect8
visualization8
opengl8
pytorch7
notebook7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
taeinkwon/h2odataset
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 25 comments in 1 year 4 months
holoAssist/holoassist.github.io
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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