Verena Kaynig-fittkau
Senior Machine Learning Scientist II at Adobe
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolVerena Kaynig-fittkau is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist with 14 years of experience building deep learning and computer vision solutions, currently leading document intelligence and ML initiatives at Adobe. She has driven end-to-end delivery of production AI features—owning data sourcing, secure data platforms, model evaluation and shipping—and led large teams and innovation projects, earning Adobe’s Tech Excellence Award. Her academic background (PhD, ETH Zurich) and Harvard teaching roles underpin a strong research-to-production track record in large-scale EM image segmentation and connectomics, with publications in top venues. Verena pairs hands-on expertise in Python, TensorFlow/Keras and GPU-accelerated training with curriculum design and global training experience, having taught machine learning to hundreds of engineers. Notably, she built high-throughput membrane segmentation pipelines and a trustworthy customer-data platform, demonstrating both deep technical rigor and operational focus.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Sign Language Interpretation and Translation, 1.7, Bachelor's degree, Sign Language Interpretation and Translation, 1.7 at University of HamburgDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning at ETH ZurichDiploma, Computer Science, 1.3, Diploma, Computer Science, 1.3 at Universität Hamburg
German, English
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Github Skills (8)
science7
machine-learning6
python6
super-resolution6
data-science5
computer-vision5
deep-learning4
pipeline1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
diguabo/Monte-Carlo-Methods-Stochastic-Optimization-AM207-2015
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:182 commits in 6 months
AM207/2015
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 158 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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