Thijs Vogels

Senior Research Engineer @ Microsoft Research AI for Science

Netherlands

About

Experience

  • Senior Research Engineer in AI for Science at Microsoft
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • PhD Candidate & Teaching Assistant at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
    Sep 2018 - May 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Communication-efficient distributed learning. Our PowerSGD algorithm was used to train DALL-E and is now part of PyTorch.

  • Research Intern at Google
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 · 5 mos

  • Disney Research (5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Consultant
      Sep 2018 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • Lab Associate
      Mar 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

      We collaborated with Pixar, the Walt Disney Animation studios and ILM to bring my Master's thesis research into production. We used deep learning to speed up render times by 4x. The technology has been used in over 20 movies, lead to two SIGGRAPH papers and 8 awarded patents, and is now productised as part of Pixar's RenderMan 25.

  • Research Intern at NVIDIA
    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 · 3 mos

    We investigated using optimization insights to automate parts of the data generation process in Machine Learning pipelines.