Umar Muhammad
Principal Applied Scientist at Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolUmar Muhammad is a Principal Applied Scientist with nine years of experience building efficient on-device and cloud AI/ML systems, currently leading R&D for compact Super Resolution models tailored to gaming at Huawei Kirin UK. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in computer vision and cross-domain semantic understanding—with hands-on expertise in model compression (quantization, KD), NPU deployment, TinyML and ONNX pipelines. His work spans efficient rendering (neural radiance caching, meta-learning), 3D pose, video inpainting, tracking and highlights detection, showing a rare blend of graphics-aware and perception-focused ML. Umar’s focus on tiny, deployable models means he routinely translates research advances into production-feasible solutions for constrained hardware. Based in London, he brings cross-border academic and industry experience from Italy and the UK, with a practical knack for squeezing high-fidelity visual results out of minimal compute.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Communication Technologies and Multimedia, Master’s Degree Communication Technologies and Multimedia at Università degli Studi di BresciaErasmus+ Traineeship Program Communications and signal processing, Erasmus+ Traineeship Program Communications and signal processing at Imperial College LondonHigh School Maturità Scientifica, High School Maturità Scientifica at Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico B. Castelli, Brescia, ItalyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Vision Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Vision Machine Learning at Queen Mary University of LondonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Vision Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Vision Machine Learning at University of SurreyCollegio Universitario "Luigi Lucchini"
Urdu, Italian, English
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Github Skills (108)
python10
computer-science10
nlp10
science10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
ranking10
react10
multiclass-classification9
transformer9
inverse9
deep-learning9
machine-learning9
bert9
segmentation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UmarSpa/SketchAbstraction
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Sketch abstraction from "Goal-driven Sequential Data Abstraction"
Contributions:29 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
goalsketchsequentialdata-abstractionabstraction
UmarSpa/HairAnalysis
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Hair detection, segmentation, and hairstyle classification in the wild
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 1 year 5 months
classificationhairdeep-learningimage-augmentationwild
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