Varun Gulshan
Staff Research Scientist at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVarun Gulshan is a Staff Research Scientist at Google with 14 years of experience applying computer vision and machine learning to interdisciplinary problems, currently leading the Earth Observation Science team within Google Research Applied Sciences. He helped found Google’s medical imaging effort in Google Brain and was an early core member of Google Cardboard, blending deep research with product-focused engineering. Earlier he co-founded the on-device gesture recognition startup Flutter (acquired by Google) and has a track record of shipping practical, real-world ML systems across locations from Mountain View to Delhi. Varun holds a PhD in Computer Vision from Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group and a B.Tech from IIT Delhi, grounding his work in strong academic foundations. He often bridges research and deployment, turning novel ideas—like his patented geodesic star convexity from a Microsoft Research internship—into usable tools. Colleagues would describe him as someone who prefers concrete impact over abstractions, bringing curiosity and cross-disciplinary rigor to large-scale applied science.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)PhD, Computer Vision (Visual Geometry Group), PhD, Computer Vision (Visual Geometry Group) at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (10)
matlab7
xcode6
obfuscation6
ios6
android-service6
android-camera6
android6
gcc6
benchmark5
computer-vision4
Github contributions (1)
vlfeat/vlbenchmarks
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:29 commits in 1 month
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