Leo Isikdogan

Staff Research Scientist at Netflix

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Homepage: www.isikdogan.com

Experience

  • Staff Research Scientist at Netflix
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Leading machine learning research in generative media enhancement and fidelity. • Working on image and video processing, super resolution, restoration, compression, HDR, and color science, with partners across creative, studio, product, research, and engineering.

  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
    May 2020 - Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    • Initiated moonshot projects, proposed novel ideas, ran experiments, and built early prototypes. • Collaborated with design and engineering teams to ready early-stage projects for production. • Built machine learning models for Apple Vision Pro and iPhone.

  • Deep Learning R&D Engineer at Intel Corporation
    May 2018 - May 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Designed neural network architectures for constrained environments, minimizing hardware costs. • Built the machine learning models behind the Intel Eye Contact Corrector, which was featured on numerous media outlets including Fortune Magazine and TechXplore. • Co-developed the VisionISP: an image processing pipeline for computer vision applications.

  • Imaging Algorithm Engineer at Motorola
    Jun 2017 - May 2018 · 1 yr

    • Designed and trained models for smart camera features, including landmark recognition on Motorola phones. • Modeled human judgments of image quality and detected several types of image degradation.

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
    Sep 2013 - May 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Research Advisors: Alan Bovik & Paola Passalacqua • Created DeepWaterMap, a pioneering deep learning model for surface water segmentation. • Developed image processing tools for satellite imagery, including RivaMap and DeepRiver.