Vincent Becker
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVincent Becker is a software engineer at Google in Zurich with nine years of experience spanning industry and academic research. He earned a PhD from ETH Zurich's Distributed Systems Group where he applied machine learning to HCI problems such as gesture and visual object recognition and interaction with smart objects. Vincent has practical product experience from co-founding a mobile app startup and internships in advanced development, bridging research ideas to shipping software. His background combines rigorous academic training—degrees with distinction and international thesis work—with hands-on engineering at scale. Notably, he turned PhD research into production-relevant skills during a Google PhD internship before joining the company full-time. Based in Zurich, he blends distributed-systems thinking with ML-driven interaction design to solve real-world user-facing problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Informatics, Doktor (Ph.D.), Informatics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMaster's Thesis, Informatik / Computer Science, 1.0, Master's Thesis, Informatik / Computer Science, 1.0 at INESC TEC PortoBachelor's Thesis, Informatik / Computer Science, 1,0, Bachelor's Thesis, Informatik / Computer Science, 1,0 at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik / Computer Science, 1.1 (Abschluss mit Auszeichnung, Graduation with distinction), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik / Computer Science, 1.1 (Abschluss mit Auszeichnung, Graduation with distinction) at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
German, English, French
Github Skills (11)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
ml5
deep-neural-networks5
uvc4
camera4
android3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vincentbecker/GestEar
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 commits in 1 month
vincentbecker/Foodventory
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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