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Razvan Caramalau

London,London

Summary

Skilled Postdoctoral Research Fellow focused on Active Learning research at University College London. Bringing experience in both self-directed and support research capacities, as well as PhD degree in Computer Vision from Imperial College of London. Enthusiastic about furthering field knowledge and publishing professional papers to raise university profile.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Research Fellow

University College London
London, City of London
12.2022 - Current
  • Authored professional scientific papers for publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Developed unique research into Federated and Active Learning.
  • Contributed to department and faculty meetings to continuously assess and improve internal practices.
  • Working on Endomapper project, studying and developing deep learning algorithms for endoscopic data.

Research intern

TU Delft
Delft, Netherlands
03.2013 - 06.2023
  • Study, design and implement as real-time IP for Virtex 5 FPGA an advanced processing algorithm chain for minimisation of the side-lobe effects on the PARSAX’s radar multi-channel receiver.

Leading Research Engineer

Imagination Technologies
Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
03.2016 - 05.2018
  • Research the latest literature deep neural networks (DNN) for mapping and running on the Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) IP (Intellectual Property).
  • Evaluate and implement algorithm optimisations while tuning on the floating-point precision.
  • Create demos of DNN applications using the GPU and/or the NNA.
  • Develop and implement image signal processing blocks for the hardware implementation of High-end Cameras’ Image Signal Processor IP.
  • Validation, algorithm optimisations for hardware implementation on the FPGA; writing documentation; customer engineer support.

Research engineer

Ministry of Defence
Bucharest, Romania
07.2013 - 02.2016
  • Research literature algorithms on audio, image and video signal processing.
  • Design new algorithms for military specific projects.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Military Equipment and Electronic Systems

Military Technical Academy
Bucharest
09.2009 - 07.2013

Master of Science - Multimedia Communications

Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
10.2013 - 07.2015

Doctor of Philosophy - Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Imperial College of London
London
06.2018 - 11.2022

Skills

  • Research procedures
  • Machine Learning experience: Active Learning, Federated Learning, Self-supervised Learning
  • Computer Vision experience: Image Classification, 3D Hand Pose Estimation, Object detection
  • Quantitative methodologies
  • Qualitative research
  • Proficient in Python (Pytorch, Pandas, OpenCV)
  • Ubuntu - Bash

Languages

English
Fluent
Romanian
Native
French
Elementary

Publications

  • "Federated Active Learning for Domain Generalisation", Razvan Caramalau, Binod Bhattarai, Danail Stoyanov, 2023, preprint
  • "Parametric active learning techniques for 3D hand pose estimation", Razvan Caramalau, 2023, Imperial College London, PhD Thesis.
  • "MoBYv2AL: Self-supervised Active Learning for Image Classification", Razvan Caramalau, Binod Bhattarai, Danail Stoyanov, Tae-Kyun Kim, 2023, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
  • "Visual transformer for task-aware active learning", Razvan Caramalau, Binod Bhattarai, Tae-Kyun Kim, 2021, preprint
  • "Sequential graph convolutional network for active learning", Razvan Caramalau, Binod Bhattarai, Tae-Kyun Kim, 2021, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR)
  • "Active learning for bayesian 3D hand pose estimation", Razvan Caramalau, Binod Bhattarai, Tae-Kyun Kim, 2021, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • "On the performance of an optimized NLMS algorithm", Constantin Paleologu, Silviu Ciochină, Razvan Caramalau, Jacob Benesty, 2015, 7th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

Timeline

Research Fellow

University College London
12.2022 - Current

Doctor of Philosophy - Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Imperial College of London
06.2018 - 11.2022

Leading Research Engineer

Imagination Technologies
03.2016 - 05.2018

Master of Science - Multimedia Communications

Polytechnic University of Bucharest
10.2013 - 07.2015

Research engineer

Ministry of Defence
07.2013 - 02.2016

Research intern

TU Delft
03.2013 - 06.2023

Bachelor of Science - Military Equipment and Electronic Systems

Military Technical Academy
09.2009 - 07.2013
Razvan Caramalau