Tom Kelly
Senior Research Associate
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Kelly is a Senior Research Associate and software engineer specializing at the intersection of computer graphics and machine learning, with 14 years of experience spanning academia, industry R&D, and startups. He holds a PhD in procedural graphics from Glasgow and has published at CVPR, NeurIPS and SIGGRAPH while leading projects that produced both large codebases and practical tooling. His career includes roles from Esri R&D Zurich to CTO of a video startup, lecturing and winning a £470k EPSRC grant at Leeds, and recent remote research consultancy on large-scale synthetic 3D datasets at KAUST. Now based in Cambridge, he works on digital roads and urban modeling, blending geometry-driven procedural methods with ML for reconstruction and segmentation. Beyond publications, he mentors PhD students and has a penchant for elegant, scalable code—summed up on GitHub as “chocolate. graphics. bikes. code.”
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Researcher, Graphics, Researcher, Graphics at Arizona State UniversityUniversity College LondonPhD, Procedural Graphics, PhD, Procedural Graphics at The University of GlasgowUniversity of California Santa CruzMEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (82)
foundation-models10
data-driven10
pre-trained-model10
multimodal-deep-learning10
java10
language-modeling10
transformer-architecture10
visualization10
geometry-library10
vision-and-language10
language-understanding10
sentence-similarity10
modeling10
multimodal9
scale9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
twak/tweedstreets
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
twak/fast_crop
May 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:306 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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