November 05, 2020

Dr. Kavita Bala on Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry

November 05, 2020/ Kat Lopez

Please meet Kavita Bala – the next guest in our monthly Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is one of our most distinguished scholars, the dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Her work on scalable rendering, Lightcuts, is the algorithm in Autodesk’s cloud renderer. Dr. Bala co-founded GrokStyle, a company that won our 2016 LDV Vision Summit Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Competition. In 2019, her company was acquired by Facebook and now the future of shopping on Facebook is based on GrokStyle's tech. Read this interview to learn about Dr. Bala’s career path, current projects and her vision of the future of visual technologies.

You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

March 20, 2018/ Guest User

We have been organizing the premier annual visual technology summit since 2014 called the LDV Vision Summit with the main focus of showcasing brilliant people like YOU!

You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

February 27, 2017/ Guest User

Every second of every day, people around the world are publishing research papers and launching new startups that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Researchers and professors want their work to be noticed in the midst of a flood of new work. Entrepreneurs want to build valuable businesses & get covered in top-tier media.

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