Walter Scheirer
Professor Of Computer Science And Engineering at University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolWalter Scheirer is a computer vision and machine learning researcher and educator with 13 years of academic and industry experience, currently the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His work tackles the theory and practice of recognition across vision and language, with particular contributions in open set recognition, data fusion, and attribute-based statistical features. He blends rigorous theoretical inquiry with applied biometrics and computational linguistics, producing unconventional solutions that bridge traditionally separate recognition tasks. Prior roles include a postdoc at Harvard and R&D leadership in industry, giving him a rare mix of academic depth and practical deployment experience. Based in Notre Dame, Indiana, he holds a Ph.D. in engineering (CS concentration) and dual BA/MS foundations from Lehigh, and is known for pushing cross-modal feature learning rather than siloed pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Salisbury High SchoolM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Lehigh UniversityPh.D., Engineering, Concentration in Computer Science, Ph.D., Engineering, Concentration in Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (10)
springer9
ats7
spanish5
creative-commons5
java4
webapp4
nlp3
php3
natural-language-processing3
parallels3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
coxlab/perceptual-annotation
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 11 months
wjs3/quantitative-intertextuality
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Companion Software and Data for Exercises from Book (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-23415-7)
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
phpatslinkspringercompanion
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