David Lowe
Lowe was an assistant professor at New York University from 1984 to 1987 and a UBC professor from 1987 to 2015. His research interests include vision, learning and computational brain models. Lowe co-founded and chaired the Vancouver computer-vision startup Cloudburst Research from 2009 to 2015. Google acquired it in May 2015. Lowe worked in Google’s Machine Intelligence Group as a senior research scientist from 2015 to 2018. He also received the 2015 PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.
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1984–2015
University research
Lowe was an assistant professor at New York University from 1984 to 1987 and a UBC professor from 1987 to 2015. His research interests include vision, learning and computational brain models.
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2009–2015
Cloudburst Research
Lowe co-founded and chaired the Vancouver computer-vision startup Cloudburst Research from 2009 to 2015. Google acquired it in May 2015.
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2015–2018
Google machine intelligence
Lowe worked in Google’s Machine Intelligence Group as a senior research scientist from 2015 to 2018. He also received the 2015 PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.
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