Hartmut Neven

Hartmut Neven at Further Future 2016

Hartmut Neven (born 1964 in Aachen, Germany) is a scientist working in quantum computing, computer vision, robotics and computational neuroscience. He is best known for his work in face and object recognition and his contributions to quantum machine learning. He is currently Director of Engineering at Google where he is leading the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. [1][2][3][4][5]

Education

Hartmut Neven studied Physics and Economics in Brazil, Köln, Paris, Tübingen and Jerusalem. He wrote his Master thesis on a neuronal model of object recognition at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under Valentino Braitenberg. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, for a thesis on "Dynamics for vision-guided autonomous mobile robots" written under the tutelage of Christoph von der Malsburg.

Work

Neven was assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California at the Laboratory for Biological and Computational Vision. Later he returned as the head of the Laboratory for Human-Machine Interfaces at USC’s Information Sciences Institute.

Neven co-founded two companies, Eyematic for which he served as CTO and Neven Vision which he initially led as CEO. At Eyematic he developed real-time facial feature analysis for avatar animation.[6] Neven Vision pioneered mobile visual search for camera phones [7][8] and was acquired by Google in 2006.[9] At Google he managed teams responsible for advancing Google’s visual search technologies and was the engineering manager for Google Goggles.[10][11][12][13] He was a co-founder of the Google Glass project.

Teams led by Neven have repeatedly won top scores in government sponsored tests designed to determine the most accurate face recognition software.[14] In 2013 his optical character recognition team won the ICDAR Robust Reading Competition by a wide margin.[15]

In 2006 Neven started to explore the application of quantum computing to hard combinatorial problems arising in machine learning. In collaboration with D-Wave Systems he developed the first image recognition system based on quantum algorithms. It was demonstrated at SuperComputing07.[16] At NIPS 2009 his team demonstrated the first binary classifier trained on a quantum processor.[17][18][19]

References

  1. ↑ "10 Breakthrough Technologies". MIT Technology Review. 2017-03-01.
  2. ↑ "The Infinity Machine". Time Magazine. 2014-02-17.
  3. ↑ Quantum AI Lab on Google+
  4. ↑ "A first look inside Google's futuristic quantum lab". The Verge.
  5. ↑ "Publications Hartmut Neven". Google Research Blog.
  6. ↑ "Seal of Excellence Winners". Animation Magazine.
  7. ↑ "Phones That Get in Your Face". Wired Magazine.
  8. ↑ "Hyperlinking the World". The Feature.
  9. ↑ Flanigan, James (2007-01-18). "The Route From Research to Start-Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
  10. ↑ Graham, Jefferson (2008-09-17). "Google can sort digital photos on face value". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
  11. ↑ "Google begins blurring faces in Street View". CNET News.
  12. ↑ "Google Goggles". Google Labs.
  13. ↑ "A new landmark in computer vision". Google Blog.
  14. ↑ Face Recognition Vendor Test
  15. ↑ PhotoOCR: Reading Text in Uncontrolled Conditions
  16. ↑ "D-Wave's quantum computer ready for latest demo". CNET News.
  17. ↑ "Google demonstrates quantum computer image search". New Scientist.
  18. ↑ "Google exploring quantum computing algorithms". Physics Today.
  19. ↑ "Machine Learning with Quantum Algorithms". Google Research Blog.
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