Ankit Gupta

VP of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in computer vision and mixed reality technologies.
Proven track record in leading high-impact engineering teams.
Passionate about empowering users through innovative technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mixed Reality and Computer Vision expert with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementComputer VisionTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

People ManagementEngineering LeadershipAlgorithmsAugmented RealityVirtual RealityComputer ScienceComputer GraphicsComputational PhotographyC++MatlabSoftware DevelopmentLaTeXDigital Image ProcessingImage AnalysisROS

About

I am a team leader passionate about developing technologies that empower users to be more creative and productive. I love to invest in people and build high impact teams for the same. Expertise: Software Engineering, Mapping and Localization, Computer vision, Computer graphics, Image Processing, Linear Algebra, Machine learning, Human Computer Interaction, Computational Photography, Numerical Optimization and Algorithms.

Experience

18 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Apple

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid

Gaze tracking for Apple Vision Pro.

Engineering ManagementComputer VisionPeople ManagementEngineering Leadership

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

I lead a team of scientists and software engineers working on tracking, mapping and relocalization problems spanning Mixed Reality Devices (Hololens) and Mixed Reality Services (Azure Spatial Anchors). The work involves close, impactful collaboration with geographically distributed teams.
The goal is to create accurate and stable Mixed Reality experiences in small- and large-scale environments.
We are hiring! Please message me if you are interested in working on these technologies.

Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementPeople Management

Principal Scientist

Sep 2019 – Mar 2020 · 6 mos

Worked on computer vision systems backing Azure Spatial Anchors - a service to share mixed reality content across iOS, Android and Hololens devices. The service also enabled the shared augmented reality gameplay of Minecraft Earth.

Technical LeadershipPeople Management

Senior Scientist

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Worked on computer vision systems to ship 6-dof device tracking for Microsoft Hololens and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

Technical Leadership

Scientist

Sep 2013 – Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Worked on for Eye Tracking and Device Tracking for Microsoft Hololens. Work involved computer vision algorithms like SLAM and image processing, and efficient numerical optimizations.

Intel labs

Research intern

Jun 2010 – Dec 2010 · 6 mos

Working on using computer vision and graphics techniques to assist guided assembly of compound objects.

Microsoft research, redmond

Research intern

Jun 2008 – Sep 2008 · 3 mos

I worked on analyzing the existing methods for dense image matching and developing methods to improve them.

University of washington

Research Assistant

Sep 2007 – Aug 2013 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Graphics and Imaging Lab

Sept 2007 - June 2008: Enhancing spatio-temporal resolution of videos using photographs.
June 2008 - March 2009: Optical flow-based dense correspondence between images.
April 2009 - June 2010: Single image deblurring,
July 2010 - Sept 2012: Tracking assembly of block models using depth cameras, Tracking multiple objects for a performance-based 3D animation creation tool.
Sept 2012 - August 2013: 3D interaction-based tools for 3D animation creation.